Re: What to do about perl-RPM2...

[Marcela Mašláňová]

Robin Norwood wrote:
> So, perl-RPM2 fails to build in rawhide after recent rpm changes.  The
> upstream maintainer no longer has interest in the module, so as things
> stand it's dead in CPAN until and unless someone takes it over.  The
> breakage seems to be due to internal changes in rpm.  I might have a
> little time this weekend to look at it, but I'm not really willing to
> be upstream for RPM2 long term.
>
> Should we drop it from F10?  I don't know how widely used it is.

Working on old unmaintained perl-RPM2 looks like useless to me. Anyway 
changes between perl-RPM2 and RPM4 libraries could be huge.

I'm also not sure how many people need it, but fixing RPM4 and package 
it looks better in long term.