Luca Berra wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 04:54:07PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote: >>hi, >>today i found two packages that provide half of perl. >> >>psad-1.2.3-1mdl from contrib and >>wml-2.0.9 from MAIN <======== > > A fix for this kind of problems could be having perl autoprovides > generated only for files in default @INC, but it would create > problems for packages that require modules in other places. > also modifying the autorequire script not to issue requires for modules > that are provided by files anywhere in the package > > i still believe that psad and wml are broken, they should not include > perl modules that are provided in their own package.
Yes, and sitescooper (from contrib) was similarly broken (providing perl modules it shouldn't have been). I can't remember if it was fixed or not.
