why does perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker depend on systemtap-sdt-devel?

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Wed Sep 10 20:39:52 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:56:58PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > In this case, perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker →
> > perl-ExtUtils-Install → perl-devel → systemtap-sdt-devel.  Which appears
> > to have been so since December 2010:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/661553
> 
>   gotcha ... only skimmed that bugzilla thread but, until i read
> further, i still think that dependency is just plain weird. grrr ...

Not really "since December 2010"; at least if you can believe in
comments to bug 661553.  At that time the bug was acknowledged and
apparently fixed.  The trouble is that it resurfaced.

I think that a new bug report is needed with an explicit reference
to a closed 661553.

   Michal


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