[Bug 520505] Spurious dependency on perl(Test::More)

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Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com>  2009-09-03 13:20:00 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> [...] a spurious dependency [...] coming from somewhere in t/* in docs.
> IMO the best fix here [...] would be to _not_ package test suite code
> at all.  

Sorry, but I cannot agree.  The best fix is to skip all %doc files when
generating dependencies.  There are often some examples in the docs, and it is
a mistake to base package requirements on these as well.
I hope to manage to get this to rpm during F-13 development.

> IMO the best fix here (and something that should be done by default in
> practically all perl packages) would be to _not_ package test suite code
> at all.

There are often good reasons to pack the testsuite as documentation; it is well
explained by Chris Weyl in
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-perl-devel-list/2009-August/msg00351.html

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