[Bug 672246] Review Request: perl-Statistics-Basic - A collection of very basic statistics modules

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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 2011-02-02 07:13:12 EST ---
Just reading through some mailing lists I'd fallen behind with when I came
across this:

(In reply to comment #1)
> rpm -qp --provides perl-Statistics-Basic-1.6602-1.fc14.noarch.rpm 
> perl(Statistics::Basic) = 1.6602
> perl(Statistics::Basic::ComputedVector)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::Correlation)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::Covariance)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::LeastSquareFit)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::Mean)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::Median)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::Mode)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::_OneVectorBase)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::StdDev)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::_TwoVectorBase)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::Variance)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic::Vector)  
> perl-Statistics-Basic = 1.6602-1.fc14
> 
> rpm -qp --requires perl-Statistics-Basic-1.6602-1.fc14.noarch.rpm 
> perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.12.2)  
> perl(Number::Format) >= 1.42
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
> rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
> perl(base)  
> perl(Carp)  
> perl(Scalar::Util)  
> perl(Statistics::Basic)  
> perl(strict)  
> perl(warnings)  
> rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
> 
> Comments:
> * I dislike your description, but that's nothing better on upstream page.
> * Shouldn't be also perl(Statistics::Basic) provided without version? This
> could be blocker for other packages requiring any other release.

On the contrary, unversioned provides should be avoided if at all possible
because rpm treats them as "any version".

So for instance, if a package containing perl(foo) version 1.01 contained an
unversioned provide of perl(foo), package "bar" that required "perl(foo) > 2"
would be satisfied by that version 1.01 package even if it also contained a
provide for "perl(foo) = 1.01" due to the unversioned provide satisfying the
dependency.

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