Changes/Perl replace MODULE COMPAT by generator

Perl: Replace MODULE_COMPAT by macro

Summary

The versioned perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_XXX) (provided by perl-libs) will be required only by multi-arch packages. For those packages, we need to ensure that the packages will use the right libperl.so for the Perl used. The noarch packages will depend on non-version perl-libs.

Owner

• Name: Jitka Plesnikova
• Email: <jplesnik@redhat.com>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 38
• Last updated: 2022-11-07
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Items in progress

• Add %perl_require_compat macro to perl-srpm-macros in F38
• Add %perl_require_compat macro to perl-srpm-macros in F37
• Add %perl_require_compat macro to perl-srpm-macros in F36
• Add %perl_require_compat macro to perl-srpm-macros in F35
• Update Fedora Packaging Guidelines for Perl
• Replace perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_XXX) to %perl_require_compat run-time dependency in all F38 spec files (3335)

Detailed Description

The macro %perl_require_compat will be defined in the rpm perl-srpm-macros.

%perl_require_compat %[ "%{_target_cpu}" == "noarch" ? "perl-libs" : "%{!?perl_version:perl-libs}%{?perl_version:perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%{perl_version})}" ]

Benefit to Fedora

It will simplify the rebuild and reduce the number of packages which have to be rebuild. It should currently be enough to rebuild only multi-arch packages and those that are part of the Perl itself (dual-life packages). Here we need to ensure that the packages will use the right libperl.so for the Perl used.

Scope

• Proposal owners:

• Other developers:

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with Objectives:

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)