It took me some time but I think I still have not managed to fully digest this discussion. I am in the hope that both the Fedora Perl packagers and CPAN authors would prefer to eliminate as much of the manual work required by the packagers as possible. One of the biggest complaints about Perl I got from Jeff Johnson during FOSDEM was that Perl is too dynamic and thus the dependency extraction often fails.... and the day after I saw this error report for Padre. IMHO if any packager is trying to parse a CPAN module for dependencies they are duplicating efforts. The authoritative list of packages should be in META.yml I understand that the Fedora group prefers to install all optional dependencies of a package and this is currently not served by the META.yml but then IMHO instead of parsing the files yourselves we should enhance META.yml to include this list. That way the CPAN authors and the various tools in the CPAN ecosystem could already check this and you would get a higher quality upstream package. If you agree with the above, could we try to work out a list of requirements for the improved META.yml? Of course you don't need to abandon parsing the source files. That can serve as an additional quality check but I'd like to see this information also recored in the META.yml file. Actually if you are already parsing the files and creating your own list of dependencies, I would really like to see this information flowing back to the CPAN authors. Would it be possible to export the list of CPAN packages you are maintaining along with their dependencies so I could create a report of this? regards Gabor -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
