*** Bug 202876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I've tested this on fedora 13 and 14 (x86_64).  Both now allow a simple script to include a 'use Data::Alias' statement without breaking.

Let me know if further testing is required, (I'm having issue with my rawhide vms currently, I can report back with those once they're up and running again), if you have a more complicated perl script to test with I can test that as well.

Package doesn't build on F-14 due to systemtap. I haven't looked into this yet.
I suppose this package is intented for F-15 and newer.

I plan it only for F-15+, because we do not have systemtap enabled in F-14.

Package: perl-Data-Alias
Version: 1.12
Release: 1.fc14
Sources: Data-Alias-1.12.tar.gz
Patches: Data-Alias-systemtap.patch
----------
Package failed to build locally!
Package successfully built in mock, fedora-rawhide-x86_64.
Package successfully built in mock, fedora-rawhide-i386.
Package successfully built in mock, fedora-15-x86_64.
Package successfully built in mock, fedora-15-i386.
Package failed to build in mock, fedora-14-x86_64.
Package failed to build in mock, fedora-14-i386.
Package successfully built in koji, dist-rawhide.

MUST items:
[  OK  ] Package does NOT include pre-built binaries or libraries
[  OK  ] Spec file is legible and written in American english
[  OK  ] Package successfully builds on at least one supported primary architecture
[  --  ] All ExcludeArch tags valid, referencing proper bug reports
[  OK  ] Package obeys FHS (with _libexecdir and /srv exceptions)
[  OK  ] No errors reported by rpmlint
[ NOTE ] Changelog present and properly formatted
[  OK  ] Package does NOT include Packager, Vendor, Copyright or PreReq tags
[  OK  ] Source tags are working URLs and sources match upstream or justified otherwise
[ NOTE ] Requires correct or justified otherwise
[ FAIL ] BuildRequires correct or justified otherwise
[  OK  ] All file names are in proper UTF-8 encoding
[  OK  ] All plain text failes are in proper UTF-8 encoding
[  --  ] Large documentation files are located in doc subpackage
[  OK  ] All documentation prefixed with %doc
[  OK  ] Documentation is NOT executable
[  OK  ] No files in %doc are needed at run-time
[  OK  ] Compiler flags honor Fedora defaults or are justified
[  OK  ] Package generates useful debuginfo packages
[  --  ] Header files are placed in devel subpackage
[  --  ] Unversioned shared libraries are placed in devel subpackage
[  --  ] Pkgconfig files are placed in devel subpackage
[  --  ] Full-versioned Requires of the base package in subpackages
[  --  ] Package calls ldconfig in post and postun sections for all subpackages, if applicable
[  --  ] Static libraries are provided by static subpackage
[  OK  ] Package contains no static executables unless approved by FESCo
[  OK  ] Package does NOT bundle any system libraries
[  OK  ] RPath not used for anything besides internal libraries
[  --  ] All config files are marked noreplace or justified otherwise
[  OK  ] No config files are located under /usr
[  --  ] Package contains a SystemV-compatible initscript
[  --  ] A GUI application installs a proper desktop file
[  --  ] All desktop files are installed by desktop-file-install or justified otherwise
[  OK  ] Package consistently uses macros
[  --  ] makeinstall macro is used only if make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} does NOT work
[  --  ] Macros in Summary and description are expandable at build-time
[  --  ] globals used in place of defines
[  --  ] Locales handled correctly -- package requires gettext and uses find_lang, if applicable
[  --  ] Scriptlets are sane
[  OK  ] Package is not relocatable unless justified
[  OK  ] Package contains only acceptable code or content
[  OK  ] Package owns all the files and directories it creates, installs and/or uses unless those are already owned by another package
[  OK  ] files sections do NOT contain duplicate files except for licenses
[  OK  ] All files sections use defattr or justify otherwise
[  OK  ] Package does NOT cause any conflicts
[  OK  ] Package does NOT contain kernel modules
[  OK  ] Package does NOT bundle fonts or other general purpose data
[ NOTE ] Final Requires and Provides are sane

SHOULD items:
[  OK  ] The Summary does NOT end with a period
[  OK  ] Package does NOT include BuildRoot tag, clean section or buildroot removal in install section
[  OK  ] Package should preserve files timestamps
[  OK  ] Package does NOT explicitly BuildRequire bash, bzip2, coreutils, cpio, diffutils, fedora-release, findutils, gawk, gcc, gcc-c++, grep, gzip, info, make, patch, redhat-rpm-config, rpm-build, sed, shadow-utils, tar, unzip, util-linux-ng, which or xz
[  OK  ] Description does NOT consist of lines longer than 80 characters
[  OK  ] Package uses parallel make
[  --  ] In case of a web application, package installs date into /usr/share instead of /var/www
[  OK  ] All patches have a comment or an upstream bug link
[  --  ] Package installs manpages for all executables
[  OK  ] Package contains check section and all tests pass
[  ??  ] Package works as expected

NOTES:
------
1. A cosmetic issue: The second line of the last changelog entry should use two spaces indentation.
2. Duplicate Requires: perl(Exporter), perl(DynaLoader) -- rpm finds them automatically; remove them from Requires.
3. ...on the other hand, they should be BuildRequired.

(In reply to comment #5)
> NOTES:
> ------
> 1. A cosmetic issue: The second line of the last changelog entry should use two
> spaces indentation.
Nitpicking but ok.
> 2. Duplicate Requires: perl(Exporter), perl(DynaLoader) -- rpm finds them
> automatically; remove them from Requires.
Ok, will fix.
> 3. ...on the other hand, they should be BuildRequired.
Ok.

Updated SRPM:
http://mmaslano.fedorapeople.org/review/perl-Data-Alias-1.12-1.fc14.src.rpm

--- Data-Alias/perl-Data-Alias.spec     2011-04-14 10:05:19.000000000 +0200
+++ Data-Alias2/perl-Data-Alias.spec    2011-04-20 15:11:17.000000000 +0200
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 # http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67430
 Patch0:         Data-Alias-systemtap.patch
 
+BuildRequires:  perl(DynaLoader)
+BuildRequires:  perl(Exporter)
 BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
 BuildRequires:  perl(File::Spec)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Filter::Util::Call)
@@ -17,7 +19,6 @@
 BuildRequires:  perl(strict)
 BuildRequires:  perl(Test::More)
 BuildRequires:  perl(warnings)
-Requires:       perl(Exporter), perl(DynaLoader)
 Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
 
 %{?perl_default_filter}
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc Changes README
+%doc README Changes
 %{perl_vendorarch}/auto/*
 %{perl_vendorarch}/Data*
 %{_mandir}/man3/*
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@
 %changelog
 * Thu Apr 14 2011 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano> 1.12-1
 - Specfile autogenerated by cpanspec 1.79 for new release. This package
- was resurected for 5.12.x
+  was resurected for 5.12.x
 
 * Mon Dec  7 2009 Stepan Kasal <skasal> - 1.07-6
 - rebuild against perl 5.10.1


--
Approving.

New Package SCM Request
=======================
Package Name: perl-Data-Alias
Short Description: Comprehensive set of aliasing operations 
Owners: mmaslano psabata ppisar
Branches: 
InitialCC: perl-sig

This package already appears to exist in the package database, so I cannot process a new package request for it.  If there's something special you would like for me to do, please describe it here and re-raise the fedora-cvs flag.

I re-reviewed this package, because it was marked as dead for a year. Now I created ticket for rel-engs to add it back to collection. I hope that's it and it will be working for rawhide.

https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4684

Ticket 4684 is fixed, Data::Alias unblocked for f15+.

How come this package is orphaned again in Fedora and Deprecated in devel? It seems to be actively maintained upstream?

I'm happy to take it unless there's a good reason why it's deprecated.

No idea, just take it. It looks like a mistake because source repository is not in dead-package state.

I would have taken it except for the fact that the devel branch is "Deprecated" and thus unavailable for taking. I'll re-open the rel-eng ticket and get it fixed.

After infrastructure will be back, someone from us should ask again for unblocking and un-deprecating. I don't know what they did to this package.

It's not blocked in koji (the package is in the Rawhide repo); it's just pkgdb that needs fixing, so I re-opened https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4684