Hello,
Whether the perl/perl-devel split in devel (#226276) is here to stay or not,
I'd like to make the attached change to the rpmdevtools perl spec template.
Using perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker) as the "base" build dependency is correct in
the vast majority of cases, no matter in which package ExtUtils::MakeMaker is
included. Packages using Module::Build should change the dep to
perl(Module::Build) - that'll pull in ExtUtils::MakeMaker too in case it's
needed for Module::Build's non-compat mode.
Doing the build dep this way should work for all distro versions as-is without
the need to put ugly conditionals on whether to pull in perl-devel or not or
whatever other perl package reorganizations we might see in the future. I
see some packagers have already started to make those unnecessary specfile
complications/per-distro forks so it'd be good to have this in the spec
template as well as applicable Wiki pages as soon as possible.
Comments, objections?
Index: spectemplate-perl.spec
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RCS file: /cvs/fedora/fedora-rpmdevtools/spectemplate-perl.spec,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.14 spectemplate-perl.spec
--- spectemplate-perl.spec 20 Jul 2006 17:46:34 -0000 1.14
+++ spectemplate-perl.spec 10 Mar 2007 10:52:17 -0000
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
BuildArch:
-BuildRequires: perl
+# Correct for lots of packages, other common choices include eg. Module::Build
+BuildRequires: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
Requires: perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
%description
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