Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: perl-Mail-Transport-Dbx - Parse Outlook Express mailboxe https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234861 ------- Additional Comments From rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-04-05 03:21 EST ------- (In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > What my basic question is towards perl-* packages/its packaging is that in > most of normal packages that uses gcc compilation uses ./configure These are configuration-time options (If "found" then "activate/build-in a feature") > and from > there also we can know if we are missing to add any packages as BRs. But I am > not able to find same for perl packages. Instead I saw "make test" is the only > one way to satisfy package's all requires Build time dependencies. ... and these are run-time options (run-time of the test-suites) The former rarely exist for perl-packages (Nevertheless, they occasionally they exist), while the latter also occasionally exist for "ordinary packages" (but most packages don't ship a testsuite) The problems actually are: * rpm doesn't destinguish between both situations. * Most packages do not properly destinguish between both cases. In practice, packagers have to resort to a "compromise that works", which in most cases will be "activate a testsuite only if it doesn't pull in additional configuration-time deps". In most cases, such as most perl-packages, "activating the testsuite" will not have negative impacts on package deps, but that's an item to be carefully watched for. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review