Building a non functional package just to remove dependency mess

[Miro Hrončok]

Hi,

perl-Language-Expr FTBFS in rawhide and F20 (since F20 was rawhide).
There is some crazy stuff in Perl itself that prevents
perl-Regexp-Grammars to work properly and perl-Language-Expr cannot work
without proper perl-Regexp-Grammars.

This leads to perl-Language-Expr in F20 being from F19 and having
unresolved dependencies on perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.16.2).

 * It makes mess when updating F19 to F20
 * It emails me on daily basic
 * I cannot fix it

However, new version of upstream Language::Expr is out, that disables
tests, while still not being functional. I would like to update
perl-Language-Expr in F20 and rawhide. That would lead to:

 * No more mess
 * No more email for me
 * Nonfunctional package in Fedora

While I believe that nonfunctional package is a bad think, I believe
that anything is better than the situation now.

Any thoughts?

Links:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=992666
perl-Language-Expr: FTBFS in rawhide

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=997835
perl-Language-Expr-0.23 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009919
perl-5.18: Regexp::Grammars does not work due to bug in perl

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