Bugzilla – Bug 120339
grepmail missing dependencies
Last modified: 2005-11-24 12:44:18 UTC
While investigation but #120337 I came across the following dependencies which seem to be missing: perl-FileHandle, perl-WeakRef, perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser. When grepmail was updated form the version shipped with 9.3 to the version shipped with 10.0 it auto-updated perl to 5.8.7 and some of its modules. Unfortunately it didn't auto-update some of the perl modules to versions compatible with perl 5.8.7. This may just as well be a perl problem.
Reassigned to new maintainer.
I cannot see dependency on perl-WeakRef. FileHandle is included in perl, perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser is required. Why should be required perl-WeakRef?
It may well be that it's not a grepmail dependency but a dependency of a perl module that has not been specified in the specs file. I cannot test this any more as the drive this system was installed on has died. A new installation of 10.0 doesn't show this problem - which makes me thing it is a missing dependency in perl which caused a perl module not to be updated when going from 9.3 to 10.0. I will try this on another system which I've just updated.
OK, I cannot reproduce any of these problems any more on the other systems. Again seems to be one of these problems that only occur under strange coincidences. Also the dependency chain seems to be OK this time: grepmail->perl-Mail-Mbox-MessageParser->perl-FileHandle-Unget->perl-Weakref. Should I see this problem again I will reopen.