Ownership of %{perl_vendorlib}/auto

[Robin Norwood]

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

> Marius Feraru wrote:

[...]

>> $ man AutoLoader
>> ...
>> DESCRIPTION
>> ...
>> AutoLoader implements an AUTOLOAD subroutine. When an undefined
>> subroutine in is called in a client module of AutoLoader, AutoLoader's
>> AUTOLOAD subroutine attempts to locate the subroutine in a file with a
>> name related to the location of the file from which the client module
>> was read.
>> As an example, if POSIX.pm is located in
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm, AutoLoader will look for perl subroutines
>> POSIX in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/POSIX/*.al, where the ".al"
>> file has the same name as the subroutine, sans package.
>
> So it would appear that perl-MailTools does this correctly:
>
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Internet.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/Util.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/_prephdr.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/add_signature.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/autosplit.ix
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/escape_from.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/nntppost.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/reply.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/send.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/sign.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/smtpsend.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Internet/unescape_from.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/autosplit.ix
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/mailaddress.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/maildomain.al
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/auto/Mail/Util/read_mbox.al
>
> Robin, is it OK for me to reopen #73970 and then mark #213561 as a
> duplicate of that since I don't think I can reassign an Extras bug to
> a Core component i.e. perl.

Personally, I'd rather a new bug since #73970 has a lot of
back-and-forth in it, and takes a few minutes for someone to read
through and understand what's going on.  But I'll still fix it if you
just reopen #73970. :-)

Thanks,

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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