FC4 perl module upgrades/cleanups

[Jeff Johnson]

Chris Adams wrote:

>Once upon a time, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at nc.rr.com> said:
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>>Adding syntax to *.spec creates instant legacy problems building with older
>>versions of rpm.
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>When was %__perl_requires added to RPM?
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rpm-4.2.

>If the spec file language is now frozen for all time, why bother
>breaking old spec files (things like Copyright: vs. License:)?
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I did not say "frozen", I said that NoRequires: adds instant legacy 
issues building
packages with older versions of rpm.

Copyright: vs. License: change happened years and years ago, and still comes
up as an issue every 6 months or so *even though the two tags have been 
synonyms* since implementation.
It was time to clarify and simplify the issue imho.

>Instead of a standardized solution with RPM, we have over 2 dozen
>packages in FC that have their own ad-hoc (and in a bunch of cases
>apparently incorrect) solution.
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So fix the packages rather than honking
   %_use_internal_dependency_generator 0
as a (wrong!) solution.

73 de Jeff