On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>> "CW" == Chris Weyl <cweyl@alumni.drew.edu> writes:

CW> Tibbs suggested bringing this before the FPC...  It sounds like it
CW> makes sense to do it this way, though I'm still unclear as to how
CW> to get it on the agenda.

Well, I do post the instructions with the FPC agenda that I post to
fedora-devel-list before every meeting:
 Read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Committee#Guideline_Change_Procedure,
 Make a draft
 Add it to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DraftsTodo

But fear not, because I made sure it came up at our meeting on
Tuesday.  Basically, the concept is sound but we'd like to see it in
the form of a set of packaging guidelines, and we'd like the changes
to the perl provides behavior that are hidden down in the macro file
to be split out and discussed separately.

The discussion starts at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Minutes/20090602#t12:39

Excellent, thank you :)

I read through the minutes, and rewrote it as a guidelines draft and added it to DraftsTodo; I took out the %perl_default_filtering bits and can either propose those separately or can just take them up as potentially being included as an /etc/rpm/macros.perl in the main perl package.  I also included an admonition to be careful of using this sort of filtering in a multilib situation, due to Panu's comments.

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering

The revised macros (no changes, really, just split out the %perl_... bit) are out at:

  http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.filtering
  http://fedorapeople.org/~cweyl/macros.perl

                                      -Chris
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Chris Weyl
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