F27 System Wide Change: perl Package to Install Core Modules

= Proposed System Wide Change: perl Package to Install Core Modules = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/perl_Package_to_Install_Core_Modules Change owner(s): * Petr Písař <ppisar AT redhat DOT com> dnf install perl will install all core Perl modules that come with Perl upstream sources. == Detailed Description == Upstream releases Perl interpreter together many Perl modules. This set of modules is called core modules. Fedora splits the modules into subpackages so that installing perl package results in stripped-down set of modules. Fedora documents this as a feature and provides perl-core to metapackage that allows installing all the core modules as is intended by upstream. Unfortunately this seems to be confusing to Perl users because Fedora is the only distribution doing so. To align Fedora's behaviour to upstream and other distributions this change will rename perl package to perl-interpreter and perl-core package to perl'. This will allow installing all core Perl modules with dnf install perl while still retain the possibility to install only a minimal perl interpreter (/usr/bin/perl) with dnf install perl-interpreter. This change will also update Fedora Packaging Guidelines for Perl to all spec files that require perl to use perl-interpreter instead. There is only 81 binary packages affected. They will rebuilt. Otherwise no mass rebuild won't be necessary. To ease sharing spec files with older Fedoras, perl-interpreter provide will add to perl package there. == Scope == * Proposal owners: - Submit Fedora Packaging Guidelines for Perl update to Fedora Packaging Committee. - Update and rebuild perl source package. - Add Provides: perl-interpreter to perl package in older Fedoras. - Replace BuildRequires and Requires for perl with perl-interpreter in all spec files. - Rebuild packages with replaced Requires to propagate the change to repositories. - Replace perl-core with perl in compose groups definition. * Other developers: Get familiar with new Fedora Packaging Guidelines for Perl. * Release engineering: No action needed. Request to check of an impact with Release Engineering: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/6842 * List of deliverables: Anything what contains perl package * Policies and guidelines: Fedora Packaging Guidelines for Perl update request ( https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/690 ) to use perl and perl-interpreter instead of perl-core and perl. Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic