Ownership of %{perl_vendorlib}/auto

[Robin Norwood]

Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:

> I've just received a bug report on perl-MailTools requesting that it
> own %{perl_vendorlib}/auto since it places directories and files
> (resulting from autosplit) under there (#213561).
>
> The bug report suggests a few options:
>
> 1. Own %{perl_vendorlib}/auto in my own package.
> 2. Try to get the Core perl package to own it.
> 3. Move the files concerned to somewhere else, such as
> %{perl_vendorarch)/auto.
>
> Option 3 is a non-starter, at least with respect to using
> %{perl_vendorarch), since perl-MailTools is a noarch package.
>
> I could go with option 1 but option 2 looks the most sensible to me.
>
> Any other suggestions?

Well, perl already owns the other 'auto' directories for pretty much the
same reason:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73970

I don't see any reason not to do the same thing here and go with option
#2

Any objections?

If not, Paul, feel free to re-assign the bug to me and the perl package.

Thanks,

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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