[Bug 2063919] New: Packages Perl tests should not generate Provides

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2063919

Bug ID: 2063919
           Summary: Packages Perl tests should not generate Provides
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
            Status: NEW
         Component: perl-generators
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
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  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora

I noticed that packaged tests in /usr/libexec/... generates Provides because
they are matched by perllib.attr:

$ cat /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/perllib.attr 
%__perllib_provides     %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.prov
%__perllib_requires     %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
%__perllib_magic        ^Perl[[:digit:]] module source.*
%__perllib_path         \.pm$
%__perllib_flags        magic_and_path

I think they were meant to be only covered with perltest.attr:

# cat /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/perltest.attr
%__perltest_requires    %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
%__perltest_magic       ^.*[Pp]erl[[:digit:]]* .*$
%__perltest_path        /usr/libexec/.*\.(pl|pm|t)$
%__perltest_flags       magic_and_path

But perltest.attr is more similar to perl.attr, it's about scripts:

$ cat /usr/lib/rpm/fileattrs/perl.attr 
%__perl_requires        %{_rpmconfigdir}/perl.req
%__perl_magic           ^.*[Pp]erl .*$
%__perl_flags           exeonly

Would it be possible to change perllib.attr to match only files under
/usr/{share,lib,lib64}/perl?

Observed with perl-generators-1.13-5.fc36.noarch.

(I find out that filtering those Provides with %__exclude_provides is a problem
when the tests involve symlinks to modules in the main package. See
perl-Module-Install-TestBase-tests-0.86-24.fc36 which erroneously provides
perl(Module::Install::TestBase)
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1892296. I will try to
work it around on packaged file level in perl-Module-Install-TestBase.)

[Bug 2063919] Packages Perl tests should not generate Provides

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2063919

Jitka Plesnikova  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED

--- Comment #2 from Jitka Plesnikova  ---
> Would it be possible to change perllib.attr to match only files under
> /usr/{share,lib,lib64}/perl?

I'll try if using exclude_path in perllib.attr can help. The definition could
be:
%__perllib_exclude_path /usr/libexec/.*\.(pl|pm|t)$$

[Bug 2063919] Packages Perl tests should not generate Provides

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2063919

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[Bug 2063919] Packages Perl tests should not generate Provides

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2063919

Jitka Plesnikova  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Version|37                          |rawhide