[Bug 502402] New: RFE: please deliver (and use!) filtering macros

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Summary: RFE: please deliver (and use!) filtering macros

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502402

           Summary: RFE: please deliver (and use!) filtering macros
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: perl
        AssignedTo: mmaslano(a)redhat.com
        ReportedBy: cweyl(a)alumni.drew.edu
         QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: skasal(a)redhat.com, tcallawa(a)redhat.com,
                    rc040203(a)freenet.de,
                    fedora-perl-devel-list(a)redhat.com,
                    mmaslano(a)redhat.com, lkundrak(a)v3.sk
    Classification: Fedora


Created an attachment (id=345264)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=345264)
spec patch

arch-specific perl-* packages often have library provides picked up and exposed
vi rpm's autoprov system, where it shouldn't; that is, these provides are
useless, not in the system lib path, and will never be used for proper perl
dependency resolution.  e.g. perl-YAML-Syck.i386 provides Syck.so(), mod_perl
provides a slew of them, etc.

These macros will allow us to sensibly filter useless provides out:

    http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.perl

The core perl package should deliver /etc/rpm/macros.perl, as above, and employ
them to clean up its errant provides.  I've attached a patch that does that, as
well as the additional %SOURCEs needed; a scratch build of the modifications
has been run.

    http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1375064

Thanks! :)

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