reduce diff with upstream: sync comments

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/perl.prov b/perl.prov
index 1668d29..d6839a0 100755
--- a/perl.prov
+++ b/perl.prov
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 # a simple script to print the proper name for perl libraries.
 
-# To save development time I do not parse the perl grammmar but
+# To save development time I do not parse the perl grammar but
 # instead just lex it looking for what I want.  I take special care to
 # ignore comments and pod's.
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ foreach $module (sort keys %require) {
     print "perl($module)\n";
   } else {
 
-    # I am not using rpm3.0 so I do not want spaces arround my
+    # I am not using rpm3.0 so I do not want spaces around my
     # operators. Also I will need to change the processing of the
     # $RPM_* variable when I upgrade.
 
@@ -154,11 +154,15 @@ sub process_file {
 
     # here are examples of VERSION lines from the perl distribution
 
-    #FindBin.pm:$VERSION = $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 270245 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/);
-    #ExtUtils/Install.pm:$VERSION = substr q$Revision: 270245 $, 10;
-    #CGI/Apache.pm:$VERSION = (qw$Revision: 270245 $)[1];
+    #FindBin.pm:$VERSION = $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.9 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/);
+    #ExtUtils/Install.pm:$VERSION = substr q$Revision: 1.9 $, 10;
+    #CGI/Apache.pm:$VERSION = (qw$Revision: 1.9 $)[1];
     #DynaLoader.pm:$VERSION = $VERSION = "1.03";     # avoid typo warning
-    #$Locale::Maketext::Simple::VERSION = '0.21';
+    #General.pm:$Config::General::VERSION = 2.33;
+    #
+    # or with the new "our" pragma you could (read will) see:
+    #
+    #    our $VERSION = '1.00'
 
     if (
 	$package &&
@@ -180,6 +184,16 @@ sub process_file {
       $require{$package} = $version;
     }
 
+    # Allow someone to have a variable that defines virtual packages
+    # The variable is called $RPM_Provides.  It must be scoped with
+    # "our", but not "local" or "my" (just would not make sense).
+    #
+    # For instance:
+    #
+    #     $RPM_Provides = "blah bleah"
+    #
+    # Will generate provides for "blah" and "bleah".
+    #
     # Each keyword can appear multiple times.  Don't
     #  bother with datastructures to store these strings,
     #  if we need to print it print it now.