Ownership of %{perl_vendorlib}/auto

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Nov 3 09:11:20 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 22:03 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
>> 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

Ok, though I don't think I can reassign a bug from an Extras package to 
a Core one; how about I reopen #73970 and then mark #213561 as a 
duplicate of that?

>> Any objections?
> No, but .. are you sure the perl-Mail*'s auto aren't bugs?
> 
> At least I am not.

I'm not sure. Where *should* autosplit-ted bits of noarch packages go?

Paul.




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