first reviews for "dual packages"

[Marcela Maslanova]

----- "Iain Arnell" <iarnell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Marcela Maslanova
> <mmaslano at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've decided fix my build failure of IO::Compress::* (#555420)
> > by updating to the latest version, which passed on my testing F-13.
> > Please someone take a look at reviews: #573928, #573929, #573932
> 
> Not quite the first - #573826 beat you to it (by accident). But it
> raises an issue we've overlooked. Not all core modules have their own
> sub-packages. Many (like Getopt::Long in this bug) exist only in the
> core perl rpm. And with the core/vendor directories merged, a
> separate
> perl-Getopt-Long rpm will conflict with Getopt::Long from core perl.
> I
> guess perl.spec needs a little more work up front to split as much as
> possible into separate sub-packages.
> 
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Ok, but in this case we need for almost every provides a sub-package.
Wouldn't be sufficient to check perl.spec and create sub-package after
the separated module will be needed?