On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:30:25 -0700 "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Christopher Meng <cickumqt@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Yeah I know. > > > > But when sometimes a staff from Red Hat Perl SIG asked me to do > > that, what could I say? > > Tell them they should add it to %{perl_default_filter} then instead of > making packagers hack around it in 2,000+ packages? > > That being said, the fix for this is just: > %global __provides_exclude ^perl(strict)$ > > It's not really worth making a fuss over. Christopher has not posted a bug reference so we can't be sure but I think he's being asked to add a BuildRequires: perl(strict), not a provides/requires filter. Paul. -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging