Request for review: perl-Number-Compare

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jul 1 10:50:34 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 11:31 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:32 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>- I'd put %check after %install rather than after %clean, so that builds 
> >>on rpm versions not supporting %check could still work.
> > 
> > I verified it works on FC3 and FC4 + inside of mock on FC4.
> 
> It will do, because those versions have an rpm that supports %check. 
> Some older versions of rpm don't, and it won't work on those. If you're 
> not bothered about supporting them, you don't need the "|| :" after %check.
Hmm, I need to think about it ...

> > I don't see a license issue. 
> > Want.pm contains:
> > 
> > Copyright (c) 2001-2003, Robin Houston. All Rights Reserved.
> > This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
> > and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.
> > 
> > This is the standard perl license as being used by the perl package in FC:
> > # rpm -q --qf '%{LICENSE}\n' perl
> > Artistic or GPL
> 
> The issue isn't the licenses themselves, it's that the text of the 
> license isn't included in the package (and many other perl module packages).
Well, ...

I know, the GPL wants a package to be accompanied with a copy, but ...
the author is pretty clear about his intention, so I don't see this as a
problem. 

Ralf





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