Bug 280991

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This is still true for cpan2rpm-2.028-2.fc8.1.noarch. Will there be no cpan2rpm
in F9? Or is this rpm not maintained any more?

At least there are always fedora-perl-devel members ;-)

As I see in F-9 there is different problem:
[root@caladan ~]# cpan2rpm Net-SIP

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
Upgrade check
Fetch: HTTP

-- module: Net-SIP --
Using cached URL:
http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/S/SU/SULLR/Net-SIP-0.45_3.tar.gz
Tarball found - not fetching
Metadata retrieval
Tarball extraction: [/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Net-SIP-0.45_3.tar.gz]
Generating spec file
SPEC: /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/Net-SIP.spec
Generating package
Signing package (pass phrase required)
error: You must set "%_gpg_name" in your macro file
Pass phrase check failed
RPM build failed [1] at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 1049.
-- Done --

Also the rebuild wasn't needed for F-9, because this package has the latest
release. Its inherited as is into F-9 and rawhide.

(In reply to comment #3)
> At least there are always fedora-perl-devel members ;-)
> 
> As I see in F-9 there is different problem:
> [root@caladan ~]# cpan2rpm Net-SIP
> 
> -- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
> Upgrade check
> Fetch: HTTP
> 
> -- module: Net-SIP --
> Using cached URL:
> http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/S/SU/SULLR/Net-SIP-0.45_3.tar.gz
> Tarball found - not fetching
> Metadata retrieval
> Tarball extraction: [/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/Net-SIP-0.45_3.tar.gz]
> Generating spec file
> SPEC: /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/Net-SIP.spec
> Generating package
> Signing package (pass phrase required)
> error: You must set "%_gpg_name" in your macro file

AFAIR, this also happened in F8. Just use --no-sign to skip the signing (or
create the key and specify it in your ~/.rpmmacros).

> Also the rebuild wasn't needed for F-9, because this package has the latest
> release. Its inherited as is into F-9 and rawhide.

Didn't see it in the F9 repos.

Are you looking into directory Everything? f.e. there it is
http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/Packages/

May I suggest trying cpanspec instead of cpan2rpm?  It is definitely maintained,
and it's likely to work better anyway.

If we want fixing bugs in cpan2rpm maybe we should mark cpan2rpm as dead
package. I didn't check if it's needed by any other packages.

The package seems to be broken:

$ env|grep LANG
LANG=en_US

$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)

$ cat ~/.rpmmacros
%_topdir      %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild
%_smp_mflags  -j3
%__arch_install_post   /usr/lib/rpm/check-rpaths   /usr/lib/rpm/check-buildroot
%debug_package %{nil}

$ cpan2rpm  Convert::EBCDIC

-- cpan2rpm - Ver: 2.028 --
Upgrade check
Fetch: HTTP

-- module: Convert::EBCDIC --
Using cached URL: http://search.cpan.org//CPAN/authors/id/C/CX/CXL/Convert-
EBCDIC-0.06.tar.gz
Tarball found - not fetching
Metadata retrieval
Tarball extraction: [/home/vvc/rpmbuild/SOURCES/Convert-EBCDIC-0.06.tar.gz]
Can't locate object method "interpolate" via package "Pod::Text" 
at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 522.
cannot chdir to /tmp/OA68ob6vhi/Convert-EBCDIC-0.06 from /tmp/OA68ob6vhi: No 
such file or directory, aborting. at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/File/Temp.pm line 893
END failed--call queue aborted at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 522.
-- Done --

Created attachment 311046 [details]
cpan2rpm patch

It seems at some point Pod::Text functionality was moved to Pod::Parser. This
patch makes cpan2rpm to work again.

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Still not fixed after 2 new releases...

Sadly, the upstream does not seem to maintain it any more (the bug report on CPAN about the Pod::Text issue is open since 18 months ago).

I guess it's not that hard to add the dependency to the SPEC file and patch the source, but it has to be done. Otherwise, this package should be removed, it's disfunctional since F8, there's no point in keeping around broken software.

Jakob, would you like to become the Fedora cpan2rpm package maintainer? Feel free to reply in private if there any questions.

The package has been retired today, see bug #498746.