Bug 683415

Description of problem:
The perl-Net-Telnet used to be available on the standard rhel workstation channel in rhel5(rhel-x86_64-client-5). In rhel6 is the package is not availalbe in the standard channel rhel-x86_64-workstation-6(its only available in RHEL Server Resilient Storage and RHEL Server High Availability channels).

Is there any particular reason for moving it from the rhel 6 workstation channel. One of the customer is very concerned about it and he is asking for the reason for the move.

Here is the customer update
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I seem to be missing the logic in placing perl-Net-Telnet in a the GFS channel.

There is nothing GFS specific to perl-Net-Telnet.  quoted from the perl-Net-Telnet spec file description:

Net::Telnet allows you to make client connections to a TCP port and do
network I/O, especially to a port using the TELNET protocol. Simple I/O
methods such as print, get, and getline are provided. More sophisticated
interactive features are provided because connecting to a TELNET port
ultimately means communicating with a program designed for human interaction.
These interactive features include the ability to specify a time-out and to
wait for patterns to appear in the input stream, such as the prompt from a
Shell.

Since it is a generic perl module package is not a GFS specific software package, (and is only depended on by GFS specific software) why is this package in the GFS channel?  If this package was in the base channel, when installing GFS specific RPMs, (or any other dependent software package) yum will auto resolve the dependencies and install perl-Net-Telnet as needed.

Note that in RHEL5, this package was maintained in the RHEL5 base channels which worked great.

There are many non-RH, non-GFS software packages that could (and do) depend on perl-Net-Telnet.  Because perl-Net-Telnet is in the incorrect channel breaks yum dependencies for non GFS packages on RHEL6.  By placing this in a premium channel, this is now forcing customers to then have to maintain this package out of band from RHN and duplicate work for no reason.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

How reproducible:
perl-Net-Telnet package is not available in standard rhel-x86_64-workstation-6 channel 

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