[Bug 552105] New: cpanspec treats recommended dependencies to required

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Summary: cpanspec treats recommended dependencies to required

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Summary: cpanspec treats recommended dependencies to required
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 11
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: cpanspec
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
    Classification: Fedora

Created an attachment (id=381464)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=381464)
Patch to ignore "recommends" dependencies.

With cpanspec 1.78, META.yml's "recommends" dependencies are treated as
"requires" ones. That is way too harsh and easily requires many more package
updates than ordinarily necessary. The attached patch fixes this.

[Bug 552105] cpanspec treats recommended dependencies to required

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Ralf Corsepius  changed:

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        Last Closed|                            |2010-12-03 19:54:08

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--- Comment #4 from Steven Pritchard  2010-12-07 15:04:59 EST ---
I consciously added that, assuming that a lot of the dependencies for tests
would be "recommends", which means that they are really "requires" as far as
we're concerned.

That said, the current cpanspec (that I'm working on) actually scans tests for
dependencies, so maybe the change would make sense.  I'm not sure.

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CJ Kucera  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from CJ Kucera  ---
Yeah, this would be nice to patch in.  Perhaps it makes sense to have an extra
argument for handling these?  So the user could choose how to deal with
'recommend'ed packages?  Not that hand-editing the .spec file is difficult
after-the-fact, of course.

(I came across this by stumbling across a fun loop where HTTP::Tiny recommends
HTTP::CookieJar, which recommends Mozilla::PublicSuffix, which then *requires*
HTTP::Tiny.  Had been wondering how in the world that came to be until I
noticed the recommend statements.)

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--- Comment #7 from Petr Pisar  ---
In my opinion, cpanspec should not add recommended modules to dependencies.
However it should put them into the spec file as a comment. Reason is
following:

There are various ways how Perl code can make a dependency optional. Some of
them lead to program crash (if ($foo) { require Bar }). I tend to handle these
cases as a hard dependencies at RPM level because packaged code should not die
due to missing dependency. Only a packager can evaluate this problem properly.
So the recommended modules should be written as a comment to strike the
packager when reviewing the cpanspec output.

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