I remember that perl-generators were removed from deps of rpm-build.

On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> In the RISC-V mass rebuild, some packages fail because Perl is
> missing.  However they don't have 'BuildRequires: perl'.
>
> One example is 'telnet':
>
> https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/logs/telnet/0.17-65.fc24/build.log
>
>   /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ksu80z: line 36: perl: command not found
>   error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ksu80z (%build)
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/telnet.git/tree/telnet.spec
>
>   No BuildRequires: perl
>
> [WARNING: The next URL may crash your browser]
> https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/blob/master/f/comps-f25.xml.in#_446
>
>   No perl in buildsys-build
>
> I have a vague recollection that this change was deliberate, and perl
> was removed from the "implicit" (buildsys-build) dependencies.
> However I cannot find anything about that.
>
> Is this right - are the packages themselves broken?
>
> If so I will add a BR: perl to the packages whenever I come across
> this problem.
>
> If not, what is the correct fix?  I believe our buildsys-build
> packages are complete and equivalent to x86 ones.
>
> Rich.
>
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