Building a non functional package just to remove dependency mess

2014-05-14 Thread Miro Hrončok
Hi, perl-Language-Expr FTBFS in rawhide and F20 (since F20 was rawhide). There is some crazy stuff in Perl itself that prevents perl-Regexp-Grammars to work properly and perl-Language-Expr cannot work without proper perl-Regexp-Grammars. This leads to perl-Language-Expr in F20 being from F19 and

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Building a non functional package just to remove dependency mess

2014-05-14 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: Hi, perl-Language-Expr FTBFS in rawhide and F20 (since F20 was rawhide). There is some crazy stuff in Perl itself that prevents perl-Regexp-Grammars to work properly and perl-Language-Expr cannot work without proper

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Building a non functional package just to remove dependency mess

2014-05-14 Thread Miro Hrončok
Dne 14.5.2014 16:38, Toshio Kuratomi napsal(a): It sounds like this would just hide the issues from you. If it's nonfunctional, why not retire perl-Language-Expr instead? 1) Retiring the package would not solve the F19 to F20 update issue 2) The bug in Perl is supposed to be fixed in near

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Building a non functional package just to remove dependency mess

2014-05-14 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 05:43:14PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: Dne 14.5.2014 16:38, Toshio Kuratomi napsal(a): It sounds like this would just hide the issues from you. If it's nonfunctional, why not retire perl-Language-Expr instead? 1) Retiring the package would not solve the F19 to F20