Orphaned Packages in epel5 (2015-10-07)

[Petr Pisar]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 09:57:20AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks. I increased karma.

-- Petr
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