What to do about perl-RPM2...
Marcela Maslanova
mmaslano at redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 12:00:46 UTC 2008
Robin Norwood wrote:
> So, perl-RPM2 fails to build in rawhide after recent rpm changes. The
> upstream maintainer no longer has interest in the module, so as things
> stand it's dead in CPAN until and unless someone takes it over. The
> breakage seems to be due to internal changes in rpm. I might have a
> little time this weekend to look at it, but I'm not really willing to
> be upstream for RPM2 long term.
>
> Should we drop it from F10? I don't know how widely used it is.
>
>
Working on old unmaintained perl-RPM2 looks like useless to me. Anyway
changes between perl-RPM2 and RPM4 libraries could be huge.
I'm also not sure how many people need it, but fixing RPM4 and package
it looks better in long term.
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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno
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