Bug 506389

Summary: Moose requires Test::Builder (which pulls in perl-devel)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Iain Arnell <iarnell>
Component: perl-MooseAssignee: Chris Weyl <cweyl>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Iain Arnell 2009-06-17 04:15:05 UTC
Test::Moose in the perl-Moose package pulls in perl-devel + deps. It would be nice to avoid that on runtime systems.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-Moose-0.81-1.fc12.noarch


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install perl-Moose
  
Actual results:
installs perl-devel + deps

Expected results:
doesn't install perl-devel + deps

Additional info:
Can we split Test::Moose into a separate sub-package?

Comment 1 Chris Weyl 2009-06-18 15:11:36 UTC
Hmmm... yeah, this should be looked at.  My initial concern with splitting it off is that I'm not sure how many (or even if any) packages have this as a "silent" test requires.

Comment 2 Iain Arnell 2009-06-20 10:43:27 UTC
That's easy enough to check. repoquery, cvs, find, make prep, and grep turn up 41 packages that require perl(Moose), of which 8 also silently require Test::Moose.

perl-DBIx-Class
perl-Moose
perl-MooseX-AttributeHelpers
perl-MooseX-Daemonize
perl-MooseX-Getopt
perl-MooseX-POE
perl-MooseX-Role-Parameterized
perl-MooseX-Types

BTW, perl-MooseX-Daemonize suffers the same problem - it contains Test::MouseX::Daemonize that also brings in perl-devel et al.

If only we had rpm with soft-dependencies - perl-Test-Moose BuildSupplements perl-Moose (assuming koji/mock would respect strong soft-deps).

Comment 3 Chris Weyl 2009-06-23 06:15:37 UTC
Oof, yeah.  I've been wanting soft-deps for ages for reasons along these lines...

Ok, so I've done the split and committed/built it in rawhide.  The packages soft-requiring it we'll have to add it manually *sigh* unless the package maintainers add it as a test_requires (which given how many of them use Module::Install should be trivial for them to do).

I've also filed bugs in rt for the ones above (RT::Client::REST can be _very_ useful) -- except for Moose itself, of course -- so hopefully we'll be seeing test_requires metadata on them soon.  I also didn't file one against DBIx::Class as they're still considering Moose to be a "soft" requires.  RT#47258 to 63.

I'm marking this CLOSED/RAWHIDE; we'll get it out to F-11/10, but not until we're through the current mass-Moose updates, at least.