DescriptionMichal Jaegermann
2013-01-30 20:19:27 UTC
Description of problem:
perl comes with perl-IO-Compress.<arch> module (after current updates this is perl-IO-Compress-2.048-237.fc18) and "IO::Compress wrapper for modules" summary.
Nothing wrong with that except that in a distro there is also
perl-IO-Compress-2.058-1.fc18.noarch, dated "Tue 13 Nov 2012" which says:
The following modules used to be distributed separately, but are now
included with the IO-Compress distribution:
* Compress-Zlib
* IO-Compress-Zlib
* IO-Compress-Bzip2
* IO-Compress-Base
Due to versions the later is currently installed but quite possibly this ordering may "flip" in the future. So which of these should be there? It is not likely that a presence of all variations was really intended.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-5.16.2-237.fc18
perl-IO-Compress-2.058-1.fc18
It's OK for both to be there; yum will just pick the latest.
It's much the same situation as in Bug 620937#c4
Arguably the perl-IO-Compress package built from the main perl package should be noarch, like the independent one though.
As Paul said distributing both versions does not harm. Nevertheless we have already removed older versions from rawhide. We are not going to do these changes in stable release like F18. (The packages would remain available from mirrors even after suggested change.)
The architecture value will be fixed at next build.
Thank you for the report.