[Fedora-packaging] perl(strict)

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 05:30:25 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Christopher Meng <cickumqt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah I know.
>
> But when sometimes a staff from Red Hat Perl SIG asked me to do that,
> what could I say?

Tell them they should add it to %{perl_default_filter} then instead of
making packagers hack around it in 2,000+ packages?

That being said, the fix for this is just:
%global __provides_exclude ^perl(strict)$

It's not really worth making a fuss over.

-T.C.


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