Thank you for doing all this work, Petr. I, for one, really appreciate it.
I hope others feel the same (whether or not they agree with the Built Root
change itself).


Cheers.

--Tim

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> per Build Root Without Perl Fedora 25 change
> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl>, I'm
> ready to
> implement the most visible part of this change.
>
> I'm going to inject perl-devel and perl-generators build-requires into
> Fedora
> specification files tomorrow. That's necessary not to break building the
> packages when Perl will have been removed from the build root.
>
> There are 3292 packages that should build-require perl-generators,
> there are 491 packages that should build-require perl-devel.
> Some of them already contain the dependency.
> There are 3129 packages that miss one of them and they will be edited.
>
> The edit will consist of one commit with this commit message:
>
>     Mandatory Perl build-requires added <
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Build_Root_Without_Perl>
>
> The commit will add:
>
>     BuildRequires: perl-devel
>
> or
>     BuildRequires: perl-generators
>
> or both into a spec file. There will be no revision bump, no RPM changelog
> entry, no rebuild in the Koji.
>
> I expect pulling the source repositories, commiting the changes and pushing
> them back to the dist-git will take at least 2 hours. Package maintainers
> and
> people with watch-commit role will receive an e-mail notification about the
> commit as usually.
>
> Thank you for your understanding.
>
> -- Petr
>
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