https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629345 Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CLOSED Resolution|--- |WONTFIX Last Closed| |2018-09-17 04:37:16 --- Comment #1 from Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I'll answer in a reverse order: The guidelines are about RPM package versions and how they relate to upstream release versions. It has nothing to do with Perl module versioning that is a Perl specific matter. RPM versions 2.04 and 2.4 are equivalent. RPM versions comparator ignores leading zeros: $ rpmdev-vercmp 2.04 2.4 2.04 == 2.4 The Encode::Byte $VERSION is defined in the module file like this: our $VERSION = do { my @r = ( q$Revision: 2.4 $ =~ /\d+/g ); sprintf "%d." . "%02d" x $#r, @r }; The RPM module versions are generated by parsing the line, while CPAN evaluates the line. Evaluating a Perl code is expensive and insecure. That's why RPM dependency generator does report 2.4 while CPAN reports 2.04. As you know RPM and Perl versions are incompatible. Because RPM versions are used by RPM, they must obey RPM arithmetic. I have prepared an automatic normalization of these generated RPM versions so that they provide correct Perl and RPM values at the same time but that change cannot be applied alone because the non-normalized version values are used through out hundreds of RPM packages. These hundreds of packages would have to be adjusted. And last time I ask Perl packagers about introducing this change, they disapproved it. Hence the RPM versions are good only for RPM now. If you want to use Perl module versions for Perl purposes, please use data from META.json or ask CPAN database instead. This is not currently supported feature. Because "2.04" and "2.4" are RPM-equivalent, I'm not going to work around this RPM dependency generator deficiency in the perl-Encode package. It would make it less legible and harder to maintain and that all without any benefit to RPM package ecosystem. Instead I will open a request fir RPM dependency generator change the version retrieval, but don't have high hopes. This is a very conservative part of packaging. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ perl-devel mailing list -- perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to perl-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
