I just built an RPM from perl-ldap-0.30.tar.gz, using cpanflute2 from the RPM::Specfile module. Because the tarball's name doesn't match the usual CPAN format (eg. Net-LDAP-0.30.tar.gz), the resulting RPM is named perl-perl-ldap. I imagine other CPAN-related utilities would have similar problems with it. Any particular reason the perl-ldap module uses that name? Just history? Apart from inertia, is there any strong reason not to change it to fit the pattern used by other modules?
The reasons for it are historic, there used to be more than just Net::LDAP in the distribution. But I have no plans to change it.
This isn't a big deal; it just leads to odd names in generated packages or extra steps required to normalize them for inclusion in distros.
Normalize it to what ? perl-ldap is the distribution name, and that is what the RPM should be called. Anything that depend on the dist being named after one of the modules inside is broken.
Graham.
(For those interested in building the RPM, use "cpanflute2 --buildall perl-ldap-0.30.tar.gz".)
