Worthless updates

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/03/2010 05:13 AM, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>> Wait until you will want to address a "serious/critical" bugfix to a
>> perl-module which carries a dependency on a perl-module you haven't kept
>> in sync with CPAN =>  You'd have to resort to either "fastestly" upgrade
>> a series of perl-modules or resort to other solutions (E.g. to
>> deliberately remove versioned dependencies from rpm and try to get away
>> without them.)
>
> oh, please -- simply this is simply FUD there;  perl module
> packaging against CPAN is not black art,
Right, ... and we (the Fedora perl maintainers) push updates to assist 
you. That's why these updates are being pushed.

> A trained eye and a minimal bit of work can yield a set of
> grep based filters to 'see' such trivially; I run rpmbuild,
> then a local helper wrapper: perl-rmbuild, and can knock out a
> module in less than 5 minutes to current.  I think the deepest
> chain I have is perhaps 30 modules

Well, the deepest chain I have is rt-3.x.x. It took several months of 
getting it into Fedora and is the origin of me maintaining ca. 50+ 
modules in Fedora.


Ralf