perl-podlators is a new subpackage in the F19 branch which is then buildrequired by some packages. I am getting an error in rebuilding one of these in F18 because of this. Can you please add a Provides: perl-podlators given the equivalent functions are in the main package in F18 ? That would save me a lot of trouble in this rebuild effort.
No, we cannot. We do not back-port feature changes into old stable Fedoras. Please modify you spec file. Each Fedora release is unique. That's the reason why we have git branches.
Instead of having perl-podlators as a build requirement, a better option that would work on both old and new versions of Fedora would be to add a build requirement that specifies what's actually needed, which would typically be /usr/bin/pod2man or a module name such as perl(Pod::Man).
This is weird. So it seems it took four commits to fprintd to settle on a suboptimal one :) http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/fprintd.git/commit/?id=f40f69460a2cd7f6e09e87f9f5694499b7891cfd
And anyway, I can't see how adding a Provides for something which is actually provided qualifies as a new feature. Thanks anyway for the prompt reply.
Can you see the perl-podlators in F18? I cannot. So it is not provided. I can see files like /usr/bin/pod2man or modules like Pod::Man and indeed there are provided (repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/pod2man 'perl(Pod::Man)').
Ah ok. I think you are telling me (not sure why a bit harshly, I'm sorry if I sounded aggressive or something) that is actually in the perl F18 package is not podlators, so adding the Provides would not be correct and adding the perl-podlators package as done in F19 not possible becasue it would be a backport. If that is the case, I completely agree. Thanks a lot for your patience.