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+Package obsoleted by the base perl package in 5.10.0.
diff --git a/perl-IO-Zlib.spec b/perl-IO-Zlib.spec
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-Name:           perl-IO-Zlib
-Version:        1.07
-Release:        3%{?dist}
-Summary:        Perl IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib
-
-Group:          Development/Libraries
-License:        GPL+ or Artistic
-URL:            http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Zlib/
-Source0:        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TO/TOMHUGHES/IO-Zlib-%{version}.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-
-BuildArch:      noarch
-BuildRequires:  perl(Compress::Zlib)
-BuildRequires:  perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
-Requires:       perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
-Requires:       perl(Compress::Zlib)
-
-%description
-This modules provides an IO:: style interface to the Compress::Zlib
-package. The main advantage is that you can use an IO::Zlib object in
-much the same way as an IO::File object so you can have common code
-that doesn't know which sort of file it is using.
-
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n IO-Zlib-%{version}
-
-
-%build
-%{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
-
-
-%install
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-make pure_install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f -name .packlist -exec rm -f {} ';'
-find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} 2>/dev/null ';'
-%{_fixperms} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/*
-
-
-%check
-make test
-
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
-%doc ChangeLog README
-%{perl_vendorlib}/IO/
-%{_mandir}/man3/*.3*
-
-
-%changelog
-* Fri Dec 21 2007 Steven Pritchard <steve@kspei.com> 1.07-3
-- Fix find option order.
-- Use fixperms macro instead of our own chmod incantation.
-
-* Tue Oct 23 2007 Robin Norwood <rnorwood@redhat.com> - 1.07-2
-- Remove BR: perl
-- Minor specfile cleanups
-
-* Tue Oct 16 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> - 1.07-1
-- bump to 1.07
-- correct license tag
-- add BR: perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker)
-
-* Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com> - 1.04-4.2.1
-- rebuild
-
-* Fri Feb 03 2006 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias@redhat.com> - 1.04-4.2
-- rebuild for new perl-5.8.8
-
-* Fri Dec 16 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
-- rebuilt for new gcc
-
-* Fri Dec 16 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
-- rebuilt for new gcj
-
-* Fri Apr  2 2005 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 1.04-3
-- Explicit requirement: Compress::Zlib.
-
-* Fri Apr  1 2005 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 1.04-2
-- Update for Fedora Core 4.
-
-* Sun Oct  3 2004 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 0:1.04-0.fdr.1
-- Update to 1.04.
-
-* Tue Aug 24 2004 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 0:1.03-0.fdr.2
-- Signature test problem take 2: removed the test file instead (bug 2012).
-
-* Tue Aug 24 2004 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 0:1.03-0.fdr.1
-- Update to 1.03.
-- Relocation of debug*.list files during the tests in order to avoid problems
-  with Module::Signature (files not listed in MANIFEST).
-
-* Mon May 10 2004 Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo at di.uminho.pt> - 0:1.01-0.fdr.5
-- Avoid creation of the perllocal.pod file (make pure_install).
-
-* Thu Apr 29 2004 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 0:1.01-0.fdr.4
-- perl -> %%{__perl} in %%build (bug 1525).
-
-* Sun Apr 25 2004 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 0:1.01-0.fdr.3
-- Require perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_*).
-- Reduce directory ownership bloat.
-
-* Tue Oct 21 2003 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 0:1.01-0.fdr.2
-- BuildArch: noarch.
-
-* Thu Sep  4 2003 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> - 0:1.01-0.fdr.1
-- First build.
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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-06aa91c973aac0985e439ab8660e687f  IO-Zlib-1.07.tar.gz