On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 22:03 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
> Any objections?
No, but .. are you sure the perl-Mail*'s auto aren't bugs?
At least I am not.
Ralf
