On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 12:57 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > 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? No objection in principle but this should probably wait until Bug #231549 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231549) is resolved. Paul. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging