[Bug 165907] perl: specfile cleanup and update to 5.8.7

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Summary: perl: specfile cleanup and update to 5.8.7


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165907





------- Additional Comments From jpo at di.uminho.pt  2005-08-14 10:10 EST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> ... I want to avoid the case of the version of obsoleted
> perl-subpackage modules going backwards temporarily.

Can you be more specific? Which perl-subpackage/module would be going backwards?


Additional info about Perl and core modules versions
(source: corelist):

Perl      Filter::Simple  Filter::Util::Call  Time::HiRes
5.008005      0.78            1.0601              1.59
5.008006      0.78            1.0601              1.65
5.008007      0.78            1.0601              1.66

FC4 - Perl core modules in external packages

   perl-Filter-1.30-7.i386.rpm
      * includes Filter::Util::Call version 1.06
   perl-Filter-Simple-0.79-5.noarch.rpm
   perl-Time-HiRes-1.65-1.i386.rpm

Example of strange dependencies

   $ rpm -q --whatrequires "perl(Filter::Util::Call)"
   perl-5.8.6-15
   $ rpm -q --whatprovides "perl(Filter::Util::Call)"
   perl-Filter-1.30-7



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