perl + Gnome2

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Fri Feb 20 14:06:40 UTC 2009


Hi

  
    While doing the review for perl-Gnome2 ( 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486482  - Perl interface to 
the 2.x series of the GNOME libraries) rpmlint complains about several 
files as belonging to -devel:

perl-Gnome2.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome2perl.h
perl-Gnome2.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome2perl-autogen.h
perl-Gnome2.x86_64: W: devel-file-in-non-devel-package 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome2perl-versions.h
2 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 3 warnings.

   The 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/ 
directory contains:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                        0 Feb 20 14:44 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                     2799 Feb 20 14:44 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/Files.pm
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                      106 Feb 10  2004 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/doctypes
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                       95 Dec  2  2003 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome.typemap
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                    25548 Feb 20 14:44 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome2perl-autogen.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                     1220 Feb 20 14:44 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome2perl-versions.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                     1553 Feb 10  2004 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome2perl.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                     7385 Feb 20 14:44 
/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Gnome2/Install/gnome2perl.typemap
    My feelings say that the whole dir should be moved to a separate 
-devel package, but the packager pointed out that several other packages 
related to perl-Gnome2 are in the same situation:
perl-Gnome2-Canvas: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=473861
perl-Gnome2-Print: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=474966
perl-Gnome2-GConf: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=660415

    What's the recommended approach here?


            manuel




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