[Fedora-packaging] Perl package guidelines and filtering provides/requires

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Feb 28 20:17:50 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 20:09 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> Anyway, here are the deps for the packages I'm looking at.  What sort
> of wrong deps am I looking for?  (FWIW these deps seem OK to me).

All of those are fine. The scripts are really for the case when the rpm
perl dependency scripts generate things like:

Requires: perl(thisisnotarealmodule)
Provides: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) (and your package is
perl-SuperWidget, not perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker)

~spot 




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