Namazu Update Broke

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:55 -0700, Donald Reader wrote:
> I am having dependency hell with the latest Namazu Update
> Here is what yum is saying
> 
> [root at dads ~]# yum update
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> Loading "upgrade-helper" plugin
> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * skype: download.skype.com
>  * livna: livna.cat.pdx.edu
>  * fedora: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
>  * adobe-linux-i386: linuxdownload.adobe.com
>  * updates: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu
> skype                     100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB
> 00:00
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB
> 00:00
> adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB
> 00:00
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package namazu.i386 0:2.0.18-1.fc8 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(time.pl) for package: namazu
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(conf.pl) for package: namazu
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(util.pl) for package: namazu
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(var.pl) for package: namazu
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(nmzidx.pl) for package: namazu
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(document.pl) for package: namazu
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(time.pl) is needed by package namazu
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(util.pl) is needed by package namazu
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(document.pl) is needed by package namazu
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(nmzidx.pl) is needed by package namazu
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(var.pl) is needed by package namazu
> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(conf.pl) is needed by package namazu
> 
> Doing a search I found all the files in /usr/share/namazu/pl as can be
> seen here
> [root at dads ~]# ls /usr/share/namazu/pl
> codeconv.pl  document.pl  gettext.pl  htmlsplit.pl  seed.pl  usage.pl
> var.pl
> conf.pl      filter.pl    gfilter.pl  nmzidx.pl     time.pl  util.pl
> wakati.pl
> 
> any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated
Clear case of a packaging bug (actually a bug in rpm, which adds
introduces bogus Requires).

This namazu package needs to filter out these bogus perl(*) deps inside
of its *.spec file.
cf. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Perl for details.

Ralf