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Created attachment 172460 [details]
patch to correct perl.prov's behavior

Well, here's the problem:

$ grep -E '^\s*(package|\$VERSION)' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Getopt/Long.pm
package Getopt::Long;
$VERSION	=  2.35;
package Getopt::Long::Parser;
package Getopt::Long;

The problem is, when /usr/lib/rpm/perl.prov sees a "package" statement, it
forgets about any previous $VERSION line it saw.  In other words, perl.prov is
expecting this:

$ grep -E '^\s*(package|\$VERSION)' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Getopt/Long.pm
package Getopt::Long;
$VERSION	=  2.35;
package Getopt::Long::Parser;
package Getopt::Long;
$VERSION	=  2.35;

But from reading /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Getopt/Long.pm, this is clearly wrong;
the second "package Getopt::Long" definition is concatenating with the first
one.

I think perl.prov should try to match perl's behavior.	And we can test that:

$ cat native-perl-provides
#! /usr/bin/perl
use Getopt::Long;
use strict;
use warnings;
if (defined $Getopt::Long::VERSION) {
   print "perl(Getopt::Long) = $Getopt::Long::VERSION\n";
} else {
   print "perl(Getopt::Long)\n";
}
if (defined $Getopt::Long::Parser::VERSION) {
   print "perl(Getopt::Long) = $Getopt::Long::Parser::VERSION\n";
} else {
   print "perl(Getopt::Long::Parser)\n";
}

./native-perl-provides
perl(Getopt::Long) = 2.35
perl(Getopt::Long::Parser)

So, according to perl itself, Getopt::Long has a version, but
Getopt::Long::Parser does not.	That means that successive definitions of the
same package should NOT stomp a previously-found $VERSION.

The attached patch implements this behavior.

Fixed in rpm 4.4.2.2(-rc1) in next rawhide push. 4.4.4.2 final should find it's
way to F7 too eventually...

Thanks for the patch!