Duplicate perl packages - perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib

[Jesse Keating]

On Aug 15, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 06:42 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Does anybody know what's going on with this?  Base perl has a sub package for perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib (which gets its own version numbering).  It seems to have been there for quite a while.
>> 
>> "Recently" (March of last year) perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib was brought in as its own package (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573929) but the existing sub package was never removed, and exists to this day.
>> 
>> Can somebody tell me what's going on here?  Which one is the true package, which one needs to go away?
>> 
>> I care because now we have mismatched version numbers for this package, and it is causing some interesting scenarios when trying to use Fedora repos as a koji external repo.  There may be more cases of this, I haven't done an exhaustive search.
>> 
>> --
>> Jesse Keating
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>> 
> Updates of core modules were sometimes hard and we used this approach 
> few last releases: 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl/updates#Updates_of_Perl_core_modules
> It should be working in rpm, but I wasn't aware of koji problems.
> 
> I suppose that now we can live without dual life modules, because Perl 
> modules in core are updated more often. But I'd rather discuss it with 
> Perl SIG members before any action.


Upon further looking at the koji problem, these packages may not actually be causing my root issue, since they do come from separate SRPMs.  However I am curious if this strategy has ever gone though the packaging committee, releng, or fesco.

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Jesse Keating
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