error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool

[Paul Howarth]

Michael J. Knox wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius schrieb:
>>> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:39 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>> Not that it matters much, but:
>>>>
>>>> Paul Howarth schrieb:
>>>>> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:57 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote:
>>>>>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>> In virtually all of these cases, the right thing to add as a 
>>>>> buildreq is
>>>>> actually intltool really, since XML::Parser is being checked for in 
>>>>> the
>>>>> configure script to ensure that intltool will work. 
>>>> Yes. But intltool is included in some (a lot of?) packages so...
>>>>> Adding intltool as a
>>>>> buildreq will automatically pull in XML::Parser.
>>>> ...will add a package as buildreq that's not used at all during build.
>>
>> Maybe I should have mentioned here...
>>
>> "So adding
>> BuildRequires: perl(XML::Parser)
>> is IMHO the better solution"
> 
> Ok, I will keep this in mind for future packaging. However, the "threat" 
> of an external perl module being pulled into perl itself would be 
> possible for any perl module... so are all perl related BuildRequires: 
> to be perl(Something::Whatever) ?

Yes. This is what you'll find in just about every perl module oackage in 
Extras that depends on other modules.

Paul.