[Fedora-packaging] Re: [Bug 198881] Review Request: perl-POE-Filter-IRCD

[Paul Howarth]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 00:55 -0400, bugzilla at redhat.com wrote:
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>> Summary: Review Request: perl-POE-Filter-IRCD
>>
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198881
>>
>>
>> cweyl at alumni.drew.edu changed:
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>>            What    |Removed                     |Added
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>              Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED
>>          Resolution|                            |NEXTRELEASE
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------- Additional Comments From cweyl at alumni.drew.edu  2006-07-19 00:46 EST -------
>> Ok, I think the rhetoric here is getting a touch out of hand, and making a very
>> large issue out of a not-so-large one.
>>
>> Perl modules are fairly "special", in that basically the same specfile can
>> handle all of them (with package specific description, etc, being adapted, of
>> course).  They're also special in that there's a LOT of them.

I have just looked through the specs of the perl module packages I 
maintain. The following ones might be said to be close to the original 
template (and I'm not including the removal of the redundant noarch 
stuff as being a difference of note here):

perl-Crypt-DSA
perl-Crypt-SmbHash
perl-IO-stringy

perl-Crypt-DSA has some additional buildreqs not in the template btw.

The following have something of significance that's not in the template:

perl-Authen-DigestMD5
perl-Class-Loader
perl-Convert-BinHex
perl-Crypt-DH
perl-Crypt-Primes
perl-Crypt-Random
perl-Crypt-RSA
perl-Date-Simple
perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser
perl-MailTools
perl-Math-GMP
perl-Math-Pari
perl-MIME-tools
perl-Net-SSH-Perl
perl-Tie-EncryptedHash

So I don't think it's true to say that the same template works for most 
perl modules. Nor do I think that just because perl modules are small 
and plentiful, their packages don't deserve the same degree of love and 
attention that any other other package would get.

Paul.