Perl module rpm dependency problem

[Jos Vos]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:42:41PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> If you peek at the affected files, you'll see that they actually are not
> "included" as far as rpm is concerned.  rpm looks at the "package foo"
> statements when building the list of Provides, and "use/require foo" for
> Requires.

Ah yes, ok, then I shouldn't blame rpm's scripts.

> Those files do not have a package of their own, instead they blend into
> the XML::SAX::PurePerl package.  And perl allows one to use() them using
> the fully qualified, "fake" package name (based on the dir structure, I
> believe).

What about packaging XML-SAX-PurePerl?  Shouldn't that solve the
problem?  I have to admit I don't know much about this area, but
I needed XML-SAX because it is required by XML-LibXML.

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