[Bug 502403] New: RFE: add %{?perl_default_filter} to the perl spec template

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Summary: RFE: add %{?perl_default_filter} to the perl spec template

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502403

           Summary: RFE: add %{?perl_default_filter} to the perl spec
                    template
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: rpmdevtools
        AssignedTo: ville.skytta at iki.fi
        ReportedBy: cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-perl-devel-list at redhat.com, ville.skytta at iki.fi
    Classification: Fedora


arch-specific perl-* packages often have library provides picked up and exposed
vi rpm's autoprov system, where it shouldn't; that is, these provides are
useless, not in the system lib path, and will never be used for proper perl
dependency resolution.  e.g. perl-YAML-Syck.i386 provides Syck.so(), mod_perl
provides a slew of them, etc.

We're working on bundling a set of new macros with the perl package; these
macros will allow us to sensibly filter useless provides out.

http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.perl

Please update the perl spec template to conditionally invoke the default perl
filtering macro, by inserting "%{?perl_default_filter} before %description.

Thanks!

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