[Bug 667403] New: Review Request: perl-Dist-CheckConflicts - Declare version conflicts for your dist

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Summary: Review Request: perl-Dist-CheckConflicts - Declare version conflicts for your dist

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667403

           Summary: Review Request: perl-Dist-CheckConflicts - Declare
                    version conflicts for your dist
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: paul at city-fan.org
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora


Spec URL:
http://subversion.city-fan.org/repos/cfo-repo/perl-Dist-CheckConflicts/branches/fedora/perl-Dist-CheckConflicts.spec
SRPM URL:
http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/extras/perl-Dist-CheckConflicts/perl-Dist-CheckConflicts-0.02-2.fc15.src.rpm

Description:
One shortcoming of the CPAN clients that currently exist is that they have no
way of specifying conflicting downstream dependencies of modules. This module
attempts to work around this issue by allowing you to specify conflicting
versions of modules separately, and deal with them after the module is done
installing.

For instance, say you have a module Foo, and some other module Bar uses Foo. If
Foo were to change its API in a non-backwards-compatible way, this would cause
Bar to break until it is updated to use the new API. Foo can't just depend on
the fixed version of Bar, because this will cause a circular dependency
(because Bar is already depending on Foo), and this doesn't express intent
properly anyway - Foo doesn't use Bar at all. The ideal solution would be for
there to be a way to specify conflicting versions of modules in a way that
would
let CPAN clients update conflicting modules automatically after an existing
module is upgraded, but until that happens, this module will allow users to do
this manually.


This package is needed for Package::Stash 0.20.

It is compatible with EPEL-4 once its dependencies List::MoreUtils,
Sub::Exporter and its dependencies Data::OptList, Params::Util, Sub::Install
and Package::Generator are available - I am working on getting these built now.

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