Response from upstream:

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Thank you for your mail.

And I've selected 
  "Standard-Perl denotes that the user may choose between GPL and Artistic,"
at my PAUSE (Perl Authors Upload Server) page.
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I do not have a PAUSE account, but is this good enough to set license to GPL or
Artistic?

Yes, this is sufficient.  However, until the actual sources indicate the
license, I would make sure that the actual message from the author is available
either in the package or attached to this bugzilla ticket so that there's no
room for confusion.

Are you still requesting that reviews be held off?  I think it might be
reasonable to disable thie additional functionality that requires the
perl-Unicode-Map modifications until those are in.

OK - I can put the actual message from the author as an attachment.

I would like to hold off on actual review until the Japanese support is figured
out, partly because I think it should be there, and partly because rpm autodeps
will require the additional perl modules that are only needed if set up for
Japanese support, so if the Japanese support isn't there then it has dependency
bloat.

-=-

In the following attachment, I have altered the message to hide the private
e-mail address the upstream author replied from. The public e-mail address
(which is in the package source) is still there.

Created attachment 128894 [details]
e-mail reply from upstream regarding license

Ah geez - the license is there.

It's in ParseExcel.pm

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.

New spec file and src.rpm:

http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2603-1.src.rpm
http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel.spec

Ready for review.

I went ahead and made the package arch dependent so that it can install and own
the map file. The japanese support that the map file provides will not work
until bug #191387 is resolved, but when bug #191387 is resolved it should *just
work* (famous last words ...)

NOTES -

The package is arch dependent solely because of the map file.
This causes a completely empty and useless debuginfo package. So I set a macro
in the spec file to not build the debuginfo package.

The license is issue is resolved (GPL or perl).

rpmlint complains:

E: perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel no-binary

Unfortunately the package can't be noarch because of the map file, so this is
acceptable.

BuildRequires: perl is not necessary (not a blocker).

The documentation is over half of the size of the package, but the total package
size is small so I don't think it's necessary to place it in a subpackage.

Review:
* package meets naming and packaging guidelines.
* specfile is properly named, is cleanly written and uses macros consistently.
* dist tag is present.
* build root is correct.
* license field matches the actual license.
* license is open source-compatible.  License text not included upstream.
* source files match upstream:
   6ee6257d4b66cb9e147a0b50603d1387  Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2603.tar.gz
   6ee6257d4b66cb9e147a0b50603d1387  Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2603.tar.gz-srpm
* latest version is being packaged.
O BuildRequires are proper (BR: perl is unnecessary).
* package builds in mock (development, x86_64).
O rpmlint has only ignorable complaints.
* final provides and requires are sane:
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel) = 0.2603
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Cell)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Dump)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtDefault) = 0.05
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan) = 0.05
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan2) = 0.05
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtUnicode) = 0.05
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Font)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Format)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser) = 0.01
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser::Workbook) = 0.06
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::SaveParser::Worksheet)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Utility)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Worksheet)
   perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel = 0.2603-1.fc6
  -
   perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8)
   perl(Exporter)
   perl(Jcode)
   perl(OLE::Storage_Lite)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtDefault)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan)
   perl(Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Utility)
   perl(Spreadsheet::WriteExcel)
   perl(Unicode::Map)
   perl(constant)
   perl(overload)
   perl(strict)
   perl(vars)
* no shared libraries are present.
* package is not relocatable.
*  owns the directories it creates.
* doesn't own any directories it shouldn't.
* no duplicates in %files.
* file permissions are appropriate.
* %clean is present.
* %check is present and the single test passes:
   PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
   1..1
   ok 1
* no scriptlets present.
* code, not content.
O documentation is relatively small, so no -docs subpackage is necessary.
* %docs are not necessary for the proper functioning of the package.
* no headers.
* no pkgconfig files.
* no libtool .la droppings.
* not a GUI app.

APPROVED

imported, owners list updated, branched, built for FC-4/5 and rawhide

Package Change Request
======================
Package Name: perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel
New Branches: epel7
Owners: fale
InitialCC: perl-sig

I'm okay with Fabio maintaining this in epel7.

Git done (by process-git-requests).