[Bug 689709] Circular and missing dependecies

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689709

--- Comment #6 from Zenon Panoussis <redhatbugs at provocation.se> 2011-03-22 08:34:09 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)

> Why are you rebuilding Fedora from scratch instead incrementally? 

I am not; this is an EL6 bug, cloned to Fedora for the obvious reasons. In any
case, I'm not sure what you mean by "incrementally". The interdependency is
circular, so you'll run into it no matter which way you build. 

> Building from scratch is not supported - period.

Then please let me rephrase the bug:

1. perl-Perl-MinimumVersion contains a BuildRequires to
perl-Test-MinimumVersion. 
2. perl-Test-MinimumVersion is not necessary in order to build
perl-Perl-MinimumVersion. 
3. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BuildRequires says "In
package development and testing, please verify that your package is not missing
any *necessary* build dependencies" (my emphasis).

Therefore the explicit "'BuildRequires: perl(Test::MinimumVersion)'" in
perl-Perl-MinimumVersion.spec is wrong. 

The same can be said about more of these packages.

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