why is Padre dependent on Win32::API on Fedora ? [was Re: Broken dependencies: perl-Padre]

[Gabor Szabo]

Hi,

I saw these bug reports starting to flow in two days ago,
just in time to mention them during my talk on FOSDEM.

The problem seems to be that the rpm builder extracted the list of
dependencies of Padre from its source code. This did not notice that
Win32::API is use only when running on Windows and thus it was
included in the list of dependencies.

The right way would be to use the list of dependencies as supplied in
the META.yml file in the Padre tarbal.

Dave Cross blogged about this probably explaining in a much better way
than I did:
http://perlhacks.com/2010/02/building-rpms-from-cpan-distributions.php

regards
   Gabor



On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:05 PM,  <buildsys at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> perl-Padre has broken dependencies in the development tree:
> On x86_64:
>        perl-Padre-0.50-3.fc13.noarch requires perl(Win32::API)
> On i386:
>        perl-Padre-0.50-3.fc13.noarch requires perl(Win32::API)
> Please resolve this as soon as possible.
>