Description of problem: The current EPEL package for nagios-plugins-perl, version 2.2.1-9git5c7eb5b9, does not provide perl(utils) when queried with rpm like the previous version 2.2.1-4git did. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.2.1-9git5c7eb5b9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download the affected version of nagios-plugins-perl from the EPEL 7 repo 2. run rpm -qp --provides </path/to/rpm>/nagios-plugins-perl-2.2.1-9git5c7eb5b9.el7.x86_64.rpm 3. Note that 'perl(utils)' is missing from the list of provides Actual results: nagios-plugins-perl = 2.2.1-9git5c7eb5b9.el7 nagios-plugins-perl(x86-64) = 2.2.1-9git5c7eb5b9.el7 Expected results: nagios-plugins-perl = 2.2.1-9git5c7eb5b9.el7 nagios-plugins-perl(x86-64) = 2.2.1-9git5c7eb5b9.el7 perl(utils) Additional info: As noted above, a previous version of this rpm, namely nagios-plugins-perl-2.2.1-4git.el7.x86_64.rpm, included 'perl(utils)'
Please see the perl maintainers reasoning for why they see it providing a bug and the problems it can cause with other non-nagios rpms. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1572361 ***