{Help Wanted]How to fix dependency to perl(for)

J. Randall Owens jrowens.fedora at ghiapet.net
Thu Jan 22 00:12:47 UTC 2015


On 01/21/2015 03:23 PM, J. Randall Owens wrote:
> On 01/21/2015 10:45 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> after I have built pgp-tools-1.1.10 I have to recorgnized, that there is
>> a dependency to perl(for) which could not been resolved.
>>
>> Because I don't have any idea how to fix this issue, I hope there is anyone
>> out there which can give me a hint to solve this issue.
>>
>> Best Regards:
>>
>> Jochen Schmitt
>>
> 
> Ah, I fixed this kind of thing some 8 years back[1][2], where
> /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req finds the phrase "use for" (or more often, "use
> the") at the beginning of a line in a multiline comment, and so
> generates a spurious dependency for perl(for) (or back then, perl(the)).
> But I only did it for comments, not the heredocs, which is where it's
> found here, near the end of the usage function in
> springgraph/springgraph. I'll see if I can whip up another monster
> regexp that will take care of that case, too.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=198033
> [2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.devel/1029
> 

Bug filed for it; it should be a simple enough fix, since there's
already code for skipping heredocs, but only after '='. In springgraph,
it's after 'print' instead.

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184662>

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J. Randall Owens | http://www.ghiapet.net/

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