Bug 552105
| Summary: | cpanspec treats recommended dependencies to required | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tim Landscheidt <tim> | ||||
| Component: | cpanspec | Assignee: | Michal Josef Spacek <mspacek> | ||||
| Status: | ASSIGNED --- | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | perl-devel, pez, ppisar, rc040203, steve | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Reopened | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-12-04 00:54:08 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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There are various ways how Perl code can make a dependency optional. Some of them lead to program crash (if ($foo) { require Bar }). I tend to handle these cases as a hard dependencies at RPM level because packaged code should not die due to missing dependency. Only a packager can evaluate this problem properly. So the recommended modules should be written as a comment to strike the packager when reviewing the cpanspec output.
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Created attachment 381464 [details] Patch to ignore "recommends" dependencies. With cpanspec 1.78, META.yml's "recommends" dependencies are treated as "requires" ones. That is way too harsh and easily requires many more package updates than ordinarily necessary. The attached patch fixes this.