Description of problem: Giving the command "rpm -q --provides perl" produces two lines for "charnames": perl(charnames) perl(charnames) = 1.30 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl RPM is perl-5.16.3-265.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Give the command rpm -q --provides perl, grep for charnames Steps to Reproduce: 1. Give the command rpm -q --provides perl | grep 'perl(charnames)' 2. 3. Actual results: perl(charnames) perl(charnames) = 1.30 Expected results: perl(charnames) = 1.30 Additional info: I suspect this is an RPM packaging problem.
Thank you for the report. This is caused by unicore/Name.pm redefining charnames module for internal purposes. We shall skip this file when scanning for provides.
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This insufficiency in the rpmbuild. It does not merges autogenerated and manually specified dependencies. We usually corrects this harmless discrepancies manually. However with perl.spec which produces tens of subpackages, the manual approach is not sustainable. Therefore perl package contains these glitches you reported.
This needs to be fixed on rpmbuild level. See rpm bug #678605.