On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 06:45:03PM +0100, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:22:48 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On a second thought - May-be it would be more suitable for perl to parse > > the *.pods, such XS-modules normally are accompanied with? > > As discussed in > [Bug 679014] rpmbuild: Perl excessive auto-Requires > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679014 > > there is no need for autodetection. CPAN packages already provide their > "requires" list: > Gtk2-GladeXML-1.007/META.yml: > requires: > ExtUtils::Depends: 0.300 > ExtUtils::PkgConfig: 1.000 > Glib: 1.020 > Gtk2: 1.000 > > which is IIRC generated from Makefile.PL, where one can also find the > "provides" list using ExtUtils::MakeMaker. This should be resolved by perl > maintainers. This assume the upstream maintainers fill out the META.yml accurately which is often not the case :( One of the tests in Module::CPANTS::Analyse is to run the package through Module::ExtractUse and report all the things that the maintainer forgot. Unfortunately the CPANTS website is offline right now so I can't point to the stats showing how many Perl package fail this test. I've in fact got an open RFE against cpanspec[1] for it to use Module::ExtractUse to fill in the BuildRequires properly because its current scanning of Makefile.PL / META.yml is insufficient in many cases. Regards, Daniel [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461350 -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
