rpms/perl-CGI-Untaint-date/devel perl-CGI-Untaint-date.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

[Paul Howarth]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 07:49 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 08:44 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 12:34 -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
>>>
>>>>Author: spot
>>>
>>>>Requires:  perl(CGI::Untaint) >= 0.07
>>>>Requires:  perl(Date::Simple) >= 0.01
>>>>Requires:  perl(Date::Manip) >= 5.00
>>>
>>>I think, these "requires:" probably are redundant.
>>
>>Why? The Makefile.PL specifically checks for these versions (or later),
> 
> == BuildRequires
> 
> 
>>which is presumably done for a reason. RPM will auto-generate the module
>>dependencies, but not the version deps.
> 
> True, but these already are implicitly covered by the BuildRequires.
> So, if FE is kept consistent, unless you are mixing CPAN or various
> repositories with FE, there isn't any need to check again at install
> time.

Not necessarily; suppose A should require B >= 2.1, where B = 2.0 is in 
[core] and B = 2.1 is in [updates-released]. Someone having installed 
from CDs and not done any updates (maybe they're on dialup so they don't 
use yum because it might take too long or be too expensive) might just 
download A from Extras and install it. And it would break.

Paul.