Bug 811144 - RPM description is not descriptive
Summary: RPM description is not descriptive
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl-Class-ISA
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Šabata
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-04-10 09:31 UTC by Tim Landscheidt
Modified: 2012-04-27 05:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1006.fc16
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-04-18 22:53:59 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Tim Landscheidt 2012-04-10 09:31:42 UTC
Description of problem:

The RPM description doesn't describe the package.


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

0.36-1005.fc16


How reproducible:

Always :-).


Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qi perl-Class-ISA
  
Actual results:

| Suppose you have a class (like Food::Fish::Fishstick) that is derived, via
| its @ISA, from one or more superclasses (as Food::Fish::Fishstick is from
| Food::Fish, Life::Fungus, and Chemicals), and some of those superclasses
| may themselves each be derived, via its @ISA, from one or more superclasses
| (as above).

(That's all.)


Expected results:

Something understandable.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Petr Šabata 2012-04-10 09:58:51 UTC
I agree adding the other two paragraphs from upstream description would help a lot:

Suppose you have a class (like Food::Fish::Fishstick) that is derived, via its @ISA, from one or more superclasses (as Food::Fish::Fishstick is from Food::Fish, Life::Fungus, and Chemicals), and some of those superclasses may themselves each be derived, via its @ISA, from one or more superclasses (as above).

When, then, you call a method in that class ($fishstick->calories), Perl first searches there for that method, but if it's not there, it goes searching in its superclasses, and so on, in a depth-first (or maybe "height-first" is the word) search. In the above example, it'd first look in Food::Fish, then Food, then Matter, then Life::Fungus, then Life, then Chemicals.

This library, Class::ISA, provides functions that return that list -- the list (in order) of names of classes Perl would search to find a method, with no duplicates.

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2012-04-10 10:05:41 UTC
The description is trying to explain you classes and superclasses on an example, which is more than most of man pages do.

I can add another two paragraphs from description if it's any help
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-ISA/lib/Class/ISA.pm

Would it solve your problem?

Comment 3 Tim Landscheidt 2012-04-12 22:17:43 UTC
How about just the third paragraph rephrased:

| Class::ISA provides functions that return the list (in order) of names of (super-)classes Perl would search to find a method, with no duplicates.

Comment 4 Petr Šabata 2012-04-13 11:22:02 UTC
Changed to:

This library provides functions that return the list (in order) of names of
(super-)classes Perl would search to find a method, with no duplicates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-04-13 11:22:56 UTC
perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1007.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1007.fc17

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-04-14 01:45:02 UTC
Package perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1007.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1007.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-5866/perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1007.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Tim Landscheidt 2012-04-14 18:10:38 UTC
Thanks.  Unfortunately I noticed just now that I filed the bug against F17 instead of F16.  Could this patch of uttermost importance be backported there as well? :-)

Comment 8 Petr Šabata 2012-04-16 08:53:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Thanks.  Unfortunately I noticed just now that I filed the bug against F17
> instead of F16.  Could this patch of uttermost importance be backported there
> as well? :-)

I guess it could.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-04-16 08:59:16 UTC
perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1006.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1006.fc16

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2012-04-18 22:53:59 UTC
perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1007.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2012-04-27 05:58:43 UTC
perl-Class-ISA-0.36-1006.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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