Bug 198027

Description of problem:
When attempting to install the new release from
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/5/i386/perl-Image-ExifTool-6.26-1.fc5.noarch.rpm
I get
> # rpm -Uhv ../noarch/perl-Image-ExifTool-6.26-1.fc5.noarch.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         perl(the) is needed by perl-Image-ExifTool-6.26-1.fc5.noarch
> Exit 1

Of course, this can be overcome with --nodeps, but then smart et al. always want
to helpfully uninstall it for you, and you can't install it through them in the
first place.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
6.26-1.fc5

How reproducible:
Attempt to install the noarch package.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download perl-Image-ExifTool-6.26-1.fc5.noarch.rpm
2. rpm -Uhv perl-Image-ExifTool-6.26-1.fc5.noarch.rpm
3. try to find a package that provides perl(the)
  
Actual results:
package does not install without --nodeps

Expected results:
package installs cleanly

Additional info:
Since I came across this while learning the joys of spec files and rpmbuild, and
knowing perl already, I grabbed the SRPM and poked around in it. I found that
/usr/lib/rpm/perl.req generates a "perl(the)" requirement in
Image-ExifTool-6.26/lib/Image/ExifTool                                         
  /MIE.pm

> BUILD/Image-ExifTool-6.26/lib/Image/ExifTool                                 
                                         > $ /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req MIE.pm
> perl(Image::ExifTool)
> perl(Image::ExifTool::Exif)
> perl(Image::ExifTool::GPS)
> perl(strict)
> perl(the)
> perl(vars)

I dug around in the source code, and I'm pretty sure it's because perl.req
falsely finds a requirement in line 148 which is actually quoted:

143-        Notes => q{
144-            Currently defined types are ACR, AIFC, AIFF, ASF, AVI, BMP, CR2,
CRW, DICOM,
145-            DNG, EPS, ERF, GIF, ICC, JNG, JP2, JPEG, MIE, MIFF, MNG, MOS,
MOV, MP3, MP4,
146-            MPEG, MRW, NEF, ORF, PBM, PDF, PGM, PICT, PNG, PPM, PS, PSD,
QTIF, RAF, RAW,
147-            RIFF, SR2, SRF, TIFF, WAV, WMA, WMV, X3F and XMP.  Other types
should simply
148:            use the common file extension.
149-        },

it just sees "use the" at the beginning of the line, and tallies up a requirement.

A possible workaround could be a patch to paraphrase that by moving "types" onto
the next line in front of "use". An ideal fix would be to improve the perl.req
parsing. A pretty good fix would be if there's a way to specify in the spec file
that a requirement should be excluded, but if there's a tag for that, I haven't
gotten that far into the spec file information yet.

There might be more files with more "use the" or even "require the", but I've
run perl.req on everything in BUILD/Image-ExifTool-6.26/lib/ and that's the only
one that came up, and while I don't understand the perl make process well yet, I
think everything in blib/ would be either a copy or source of the stuff in lib/?
Other than that, exiftool itself is clean, and I wouldn't think it would be in t
/ or html/.