Compress::Raw::Zlib no longer installed with Perl on Fedora 30?

On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:

Hi,

I had an issue report from a user of my WriteXLS CRAN package indicating that Compress::Raw::Zlib is apparently not installed by default with Perl on Fedora 30.

Since this appears to be a new issue, I am wondering if one of the Fedora maintainers on this list can confirm this and perhaps when the change may have occurred.

If this is correct and not a Perl installation issue or other error, I may need to add this Perl module to my CRAN package moving forward.

Thanks,

Marc Schwartz

On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:

Hi,

I had an issue report from a user of my WriteXLS CRAN package indicating

that Compress::Raw::Zlib is apparently not installed by default with Perl
on Fedora 30.

Since this appears to be a new issue, I am wondering if one of the

Fedora maintainers on this list can confirm this and perhaps when the
change may have occurred.

If this is correct and not a Perl installation issue or other error, I

may need to add this Perl module to my CRAN package moving forward.

Thanks,

Marc Schwartz

Hi,

A quick follow up pending confirmation.

In the course of a search this morning, I found the following page:


https://fedora.pkgs.org/30/fedora-updates-x86_64/perl-5.28.2-436.fc30.x86_64.rpm.html

which, if I read correctly, would indicate that perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib is
indeed required by the Perl RPM, so should presumably be installed by
default, with Perl.

It is not clear to me if there is a Fedora 30 install/upgrade scenario
where perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib would not be present, but would defer to those
with the relevant knowledge.

Thanks for any insights.

Marc

On Jul 24, 2019, at 8:53 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

I can confirm:

[spot at localhost ~]$ rpm -q perl --requires |grep Zlib
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
perl-IO-Zlib
[spot at localhost ~]$ rpm -q perl
perl-5.28.2-436.fc30.x86_64

It would require either notable human intervention (or a canceled mid-upgrade state) for a Fedora 30 system to end up with perl, but not perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.

Thanks,
Tom

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 8:42 AM Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com <mailto:marc_schwartz at me.com>> wrote:

On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com <mailto:marc_schwartz at me.com>> wrote:

Hi,

I had an issue report from a user of my WriteXLS CRAN package indicating that Compress::Raw::Zlib is apparently not installed by default with Perl on Fedora 30.

Since this appears to be a new issue, I am wondering if one of the Fedora maintainers on this list can confirm this and perhaps when the change may have occurred.

If this is correct and not a Perl installation issue or other error, I may need to add this Perl module to my CRAN package moving forward.

Thanks,

Marc Schwartz

Hi,

A quick follow up pending confirmation.

In the course of a search this morning, I found the following page:

  https://fedora.pkgs.org/30/fedora-updates-x86_64/perl-5.28.2-436.fc30.x86_64.rpm.html <https://fedora.pkgs.org/30/fedora-updates-x86_64/perl-5.28.2-436.fc30.x86_64.rpm.html>

which, if I read correctly, would indicate that perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib is indeed required by the Perl RPM, so should presumably be installed by default, with Perl.

It is not clear to me if there is a Fedora 30 install/upgrade scenario where perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib would not be present, but would defer to those with the relevant knowledge.

Thanks for any insights.

Marc