[Fedora-packaging] Re: Draft: Perl packages don't need -devel for .h headers

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 06:29, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>>> "TC" == Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
>>> TC> Since perl is special, perl packages are exempt from the
>>> TC> requirement for -devel packages for .h header files.
>>>
>>> I'm definitely for for this, although I wish someone who truly
>>> understands why arch-specific Perl modules need a .h file could
>>> explain it to us.  For all I know it doesn't actually need to be
>>> packaged.
>> They're installed for the usual reasons - something requires them, usually at 
>> build time.  See for example perl-DBI and perl-DBD-MySQL; the latter needs 
>> DBI's *.h to build, ditto probably all other perl-DBD-*.
>>
>> Rather than blanket approval for the status quo, I think it would be better to 
>> first discuss whether -devel packages for some perl modules should be 
>> introduced instead.
> 
> Does anyone know about how many perl packages we're talking about? If
> it's a small number I'd go with Ville and have them properly split out
> their *-devel. It's much cleaner that way. If it involves major
> surgery then we'd have to let this pass though, but I assume it will
> affect only a few.
> 
> The packages I've seen carrying *.h files are mostly not suited
> becoming perl- prefixed anyway (in a monolithic package) as they are
> carrying more than modules.

Perl packages that include .h files (excluding the core perl)

Core: 2 perl packages
  perl-DBI
  perl-PDL

Extras: 16 perl packages
  perl-Cairo
  perl-Event
  perl-Glib
  perl-Gnome2-Canvas
  perl-Gnome2-GConf
  perl-Gnome2-Print
  perl-Gnome2-VFS
  perl-Gtk2
  perl-Gtk2-GladeXML
  perl-Gtk2-Notify
  perl-Gtk2-Sexy
  perl-Gtk2-Spell
  perl-Gtk2-TrayIcon
  perl-Imager
  perl-Tk
  perl-Wx

jpo
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