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Bug 927211

Summary:	RPM generates wrong Perl provides
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jan Kaluža <jkaluza>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jan Kaluža 2013-03-25 11:44:10 UTC

See Bug 924938, mainly https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924938#c19

Since file-5.14, more Perl files are recognized as "Perl5 Module". RPM then treats all "package x;" occurrences in those files as real module definitions and puts them into Provides even when they are in Perl comment.

I think RPM should handle only Provides from files in Perl modules search path. Note that I'm File maintainer, not Perl developer/maintainer.

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2013-05-22 06:03:26 UTC

Limiting by search paths tends to be problematic in various ways, but rpm-4.11.0.1-6.fc20 requires files to have .pm suffix in addition in order to be classified as perl modules which should cure at least the worst of it.