[Bug 1158860] Please drop dependency on perl-generators from rpm-build

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158860



--- Comment #13 from Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
RPM maintainers, it's time to remove "Requires: perl-generators" from rpm-build
package. See <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl>.

Please remove the dependency. If you are busy, I can do it instead of you.

The removal will cause warnings about missing "perl" when expanding these macro
definitions from /usr/lib/rpm/macros:

%perl_sitearch  %(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installsitearch`"; echo $installsitearch)
%perl_sitelib   %(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installsitelib`"; echo $installsitelib)
%perl_vendorarch %(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installvendorarch`"; echo
$installvendorarch)
%perl_vendorlib  %(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installvendorlib`"; echo
$installvendorlib)
%perl_archlib   %(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installarchlib`"; echo $installarchlib)
%perl_privlib   %(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installprivlib`"; echo $installprivlib)

They are harmless. Previous rpm maintainer wanted to keep the macros in rpm. Do
you share the idea or should they be moved to perl-macros package (perl source
package)?

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