[users] perl-PDF-API2

[Dries Verachtert]

On Sunday December 2 2007, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:35 AM +0100 Dries Verachtert
>
> <dries at ulyssis.org> wrote:
> >> Have you tried looking what files int hat package makes rpm believe it
> >> needs per(the) ?
> >
> > Michael: you can check which file requires this dependency with:
> > rpm -q --filerequire -p perl-PDF-API2*.rpm | grep the
> > I've added a small fix to the spec file.
>
> Here's the offender. But I don't yet see what's triggering it.
>
> /usr/lib/rpm/perl.req ./lib/PDF/API2/Resource/XObject/Image/PNM.pm

Rpm uses the perl.req script to search for used modules. It uses some kind of 
regular expression and it matches on the string 'use the' on line 393. This 
is in the middle of some pod documentation, so this requirement should not be 
added to the rpm. There are some possibilities to fix such situations (there 
might be other/better solutions besides the following):

* Delete the file. You can do this for some submodule like 'Win32.pm' but i 
guess this is not an acceptable solution for PNM.pm.

* remove the executable bit from the file and add it again in the %files 
section with %attr. This way perl wont check for requirements on this file 
(because it's not executable) but it will be installed correctly. 
Disadvantage for this module: also the other (correct) requirements of this 
file PNM.pm aren't added to the rpm.

* disable automatic requirements checking and add some 'Requires: foo' lines.

* Change the text so it's not added as a requirement. I added a perl oneliner 
which changes 'use' to 'Use', see:
http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/perl-PDF-API2/perl-PDF-API2.spec

kind regards,
Dries

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