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Description of problem:
The RE 
    
     s/\(*$//;

is used in an attempt to strip anything in brackets from a posible module name.
It should be 

     s/\(.*$//;

(note the extra dot). This bug results in a bogus dependancy, for example for
the FakeApache.pm component of HTML::Mason

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.2-0.69

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Obtain and unpack (e.g.)
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/HTML-Mason-1.23.tar.gz
2.Rin /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req HTML-Mason-1.23/lib/HTML/Mason/FakeApache.pm
3.Note (bogus) perl(HTML::Mason::MethodMaker(read_write) dependancy
    

Actual Results:  perl(HTML::Mason::MethodMaker(read_write)

Expected Results:  perl(HTML::Mason::MethodMaker)

Additional info:

Folowing patch fixes:

*** /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req.orig	2003-10-09 14:02:42.000000000 +0100
--- /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req	2003-10-09 14:27:37.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 170,176 ****
        # sometimes people do use POSIX qw(foo), or use POSIX(qw(foo)) etc
        # we can strip qw.*$, as well as (.*$:
        $module =~ s/qw.*$//;
!       $module =~ s/\(*$//;
  
        $module =~ s/\.pm$//;
  
--- 170,176 ----
        # sometimes people do use POSIX qw(foo), or use POSIX(qw(foo)) etc
        # we can strip qw.*$, as well as (.*$:
        $module =~ s/qw.*$//;
!       $module =~ s/\(.*$//;
  
        $module =~ s/\.pm$//;