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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689709
--- Comment #3 from Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de 2011-03-22 07:38:39 EDT --- (In reply to comment #1)
To sum it up, some Perl packages like Perl::Test::MinimumVersion couldn't be (re)built in new environment because of circular dependency.
Correct - Fedora's perl is being built incrementally. Bootstrapping has never been a requirement.
The question is, what to do with that (or if any action is necessary).
Nothing, because such circular dependencies can stretch accross very long dependency chains and are a moving target (Perl deps vanish and popup all of the time).
If you want to do something systematically, we could add a %bcond_without boottrap conditional which would be supposed to switch-off known circular dependencies by if the person who is bootstrapping from scratch explictly demands.
Also note that this warning: t/99_pmv.t ........ skipped: Test::MinimumVersion 0.008
a) is a just a warning b) stems from a maintainer test (Ignorable).
Openly said, I am inclined to close this BZ as "WONTFIX".