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

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Tue Feb 6 04:29:38 UTC 2007


>>>>> "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.

 - J<




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