Orphaned Packages in epel5 (2015-10-07)

[Paul Howarth]

On 07/10/15 23:20, opensource at till.name wrote:
> Depending on: perl-Perlilog (53), status change: 2015-10-07 (0 weeks ago)
> 	opensips (maintained by: ivaxer, peter)
> 		opensips-perl-1.7.2-2.el5.x86_64 requires perl(UNIVERSAL)
> 		opensips-perlvdb-1.7.2-2.el5.x86_64 requires perl(UNIVERSAL)
>
> 	perl-BerkeleyDB (maintained by: psabata, perl-sig, pghmcfc, steve)
> 		perl-BerkeleyDB-0.32-1.el5.x86_64 requires perl(UNIVERSAL)
>
> 	perl-Class-Autouse (maintained by: psabata)
> 		perl-Class-Autouse-1.29-1.el5.noarch requires perl(UNIVERSAL)
>
> 	perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl (maintained by: pghmcfc, perl-sig)
> 		perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl-1.09-2.el5.noarch requires perl(UNIVERSAL)

... and lots of others

The perl-Perlilog package had a "provide" of perl(UNIVERSAL), which 
triggered this long list. The dependency checking script has not taken 
into account that the main perl package also provides perl(UNIVERSAL) 
and so the orphaning of perl-Perlilog is not as big an issue as it appears.

I have submitted an update to perl-Perlilog that has filtered out the 
bogus provides, to mitigate this problem in the future.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-721695753c

Paul.