perl provides and requires from the same package

[Ralf Corsepius]

Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> During the review for  perl-NOCpulse-Object  ( 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485893 ) I have noticed that 
> rpmbuild adds as requires some items which are provided by this very 
> package (abreged version below):
> 
> [wolfy at wolfy tmp]$ rpm -qp --provides
> /home/wolfy/reports/perl-NOCpulse-Object/perl-NOCpulse-Object-1.26.9-1.fc11.noarch.rpm 
> 

> The packager thinks this is OK, I think that they should be filtered 
> out. Could we have a second opinion, please ?

Both of you are right and wrong at the same time.

Pedantically speaking, they should not be there, but they don't do much 
  harm (but to bloat the rpmdata bases) -- which is one reason why there 
is no requirement to filter them out.

Ralf