perl provides and requires from the same package

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 16:22:59 UTC 2009


On 2009-02-18, 14:38 GMT, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> The packager thinks this is OK, I think that they should be 
>> filtered out. Could we have a second opinion, please ?
>
> Pedantically speaking, they should not be there, but they don't 
> do much harm (but to bloat the rpmdata bases) -- which is one 
> reason why there is no requirement to filter them out.

I think the problem, is that neither specifies what "they" are.  
IMHO, Provides should stay and Requires go.

Matěj




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