On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:09:58 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Maybe, however, some perl packages require packages with a version > number higher than a certain value. > Thus, if the Provides/Requires instructions are not set properly, > all the packages requiring other packages fail, either at the build or > installation step.
That doesn't make any sense at all. The Provides/Requires dependencies are set automatically at build-time. One package _provides_ exactly what is found within in. Another package _requires_ exactly what it uses in its code. These automatic dependencies are correct at build-time, if and only if none of the providing packages is taken away or replaced with something incompatible (such as failing to satisfy >= requirements due to API changes or runtime behaviour changes). If a Perl Module included in an RPM package is version X.Y, the package must not be used, if a package requires a version higher than X.Y. The package metadata must only provide exactly the version of the Perl Module that is included. That is why perl-generators is used to create these dependencies at build-time. If a newer version of the Perl Module is needed, an update to the package collection may be needed. If you hack a spec file with manually added "Provides:" for a higher version, you are working against the entire system of package dependencies. > In my opinion, all the perl packages need to be checked > to go through the distribution without requiring to use > capnspec by the final user. That is entirely unrelated to this mailing-list thread. It could be that there are perl-* RPM packages included in Fedora's package collection, which are missing the perl-generators build requirement and which are missing "perl(A::B) = version" provides. If that is the case, file a bug report. Or step up as co-maintainer, if you depend on such packages. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
