Breaking perl...

[Robin Norwood]

"Chris Weyl" <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> writes:

> On 4/16/07, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:01 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
>> > On 4/16/07, Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > > Ok, that seems to be the consensus.  We'll roll the split into F7, add
>> > > the needed packages to the buildroots, and get the perl-* spec files
>> > > fixed for F8.  I'll get an email together to fedora devel list
>> > > explaining the changes and asking for feedback.  We should also update
>> > > the perl packaging guidelines wiki page(s).  Spot, I think you own those
>> > > - do you want to make the change (perl packages should now BR perl-devel
>> > > + co), or shall I?
>> >
>> > Wait -- I thought needing to BR perl-devel explicitly was something we
>> > were trying to avoid (for portability, among other reasons).  Have we
>> > moved away from that?
>>
>> Well, not BR perl-devel, but BR the perl components your package
>> actually need.
>
> Ok, cool.  I was hoping that was the case :)

Oh, yeah, sorry.  What he said ^. :-)

-RN

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