perl provides and requires from the same package

[Ralf Corsepius]

Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2009-02-18, 14:38 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> The packager thinks this is OK, I think that they should be 
>>> filtered out. Could we have a second opinion, please ?
>> 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.
> 
> I think the problem, is that neither specifies what "they" are.  
> IMHO, Provides should stay and Requires go.

Agreed, IMO, "self-provided requires" should go, everything else should 
stay.

Unfortunately, rpm's filtering doesn't do so and manually adding filters 
is more error-prone than it helps.

Ralf