Friday 27th August 2010

Fedora Project

• Updated python-crypto to 2.3 in Rawhide and F-14:

  • Fix NameError when attempting to use the deprecated getRandomNumber() function

  • _slowmath: compute RSA u parameter when it's not given to RSA.construct; this makes _slowmath behave the same as _fastmath in this regard

  • Make RSA.generate raise a more user-friendly exception message when the user tries to generate a bogus-length key

• Unusually, the upstream tarball doesn't contain a top-level directory this time so I had to use the -c option to %setup to get the directory created for me in %prep

• I also got the benchmark script pct-speedtest.py to run in %check, added a patch to make sure libgmp was found properly on 64-bit systems where it lives in a lib64 directory, and changed the python-devel buildreq to the more specific python2-devel

Local Packages

• Updated perl-YAML-Syck to 1.14:

  • Quoting fixes for JSON with numbers (CPAN RT#60771)

  • Add YAML tests to make sure HEX and octal preserve their information

• Updated python-crypto to 2.3 as per Fedora

Thursday 26th August 2010

Fedora Project

• Updated bluefish (Rawhide, F-14, F-13, EL-6) to add an upstream patch fixing a crash in the File/Open dialog if a filter (e.g. "Web Files") is selected (Bug #626246), and to change the buildreq man to /usr/bin/man since man has been obsoleted (but not provided) by man-db from Fedora 14

Local Packages

• Updated bluefish as per the Fedora package

Wednesday 25th August 2010

Local Packages

• Updated c-ares to apply some fixes from upstream 1.7.4 development:

  • Add missing break that caused get_ares_servers to fail

  • Fix aliasing warning in gcc 4.4.4 (at least)

  • Fix memory leak in ares_getnameinfo

• Updated dovecot updated to 2.0.1, and pigeonhole to today's snapshot

  • dsync doesn't drop privileges when started as root
  • imap: QRESYNC parameters for SELECT weren't handled correctly
  • UTF-8 string validity checking wasn't done correctly
  • dsync: fixed a random assert-crash with remote dsyncing
  • sieved renamed to sieve-dump
  • ship manpage for pigeonhole(7)

• I had to add a patch to fix the pigeonhole build from a cooked tarball (generated using make dist) as a couple of files weren't included in the resulting tarball

• Updated dovecot (1.x) to 1.2.14, dropping the upstreamed QRESYNC patch

  • virtual mailboxes: added support for IDLE notifications

  • master: don't crash on config reload when using dict processes

  • imap: QRESYNC parameters for SELECT weren't handled correctly

• Updated sendmail to fix the sendmail.nm-dispatcher script to handle VPN connections (Bug #577540)

Tuesday 24th August 2010

Fedora Project

• Updated curl to build without needing to run the autotools during the build process, and to drop manual dependencies on automake and pkgconfig in the libcurl-devel package that are no longer needed for various reasons

Local Packages

• Updated curl to fix kerberos proxy authentication for https (Bug #625676) and work around glibc/valgrind problem on x86_64 (Bug #626470)

• Updated curl again to drop manual dependencies on /usr/share/aclocal and pkgconfig in the libcurl-devel package that are no longer needed for various reasons on current Fedora (but these are kept for older releases where they are needed)

• Updated perl-Class-MOP to 1.07 (fix a mysterious error, which showed up as "Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1/Class/MOP/Mixin/HasMethods.pm line 167")

RPM Fusion Project

• Rebuilt perl-Crypt-IDEA for perl 5.12.1 in F-14

Monday 23rd August 2010

Fedora Project

• Merged existing EL-6 branch of perl-Return-Value (1.666001-1) with Rawhide (no significant changes) and built it for EPEL-6; it's needed as a dependency of perl-Email-Send (Bug #626218)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Class-MOP to 1.05:

  • Refactorings and improvements to how defaults are handled
  • Optimizations that should help speed up compilation time

• I had to patch t/003_methods.t to make the two newly-added subtests at the end into TODO tests as they fail with perl < 5.10.0:

• --- perl-Class-MOP/trunk/Class-MOP-1.05-broken-test-003.patch (added)
  +++ perl-Class-MOP/trunk/Class-MOP-1.05-broken-test-003.patch Mon Aug 23 15:14:04 2010
  @@ -1,0 +1,41 @@
  Fails like this:
  
  http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/C/Class-MOP.html#Class-MOP-1.05
  
  #   Failed test 'get_method_list handles constants properly'
  #   at t/003_methods.t line 368.
  #     Structures begin differing at:
  #          $got->[0] = 'BAR'
  #     $expected->[0] = 'quux'
  
  #   Failed test '_get_local_methods handles constants properly'
  #   at t/003_methods.t line 375.
  #     Structures begin differing at:
  #          $got->[0] = 'BAR'
  #     $expected->[0] = 'quux'
  # Looks like you failed 2 tests of 71.
  t/003_methods.t ........................... 
  Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
  Failed 2/71 subtests 
  
  --- Class-MOP-1.05/t/003_methods.t.orig 2010-08-22 16:31:55.000000000 +0100
  +++ Class-MOP-1.05/t/003_methods.t      2010-08-23 09:48:40.784337434 +0100
  @@ -352,6 +352,10 @@
       }
   }
   
  +TODO: {
  +
  +local $TODO = "Test fails with perl < 5.10.0";
  +
   {
       package HasConstants;
   
  @@ -377,5 +381,7 @@
       '_get_local_methods handles constants properly'
   );
   
  +};
  +
   
   done_testing;

• Updated perl-DBM-Deep to 2.0001:

  • Simply reading a hash or array element no longer causes autovivification, though dereferencing it does still; this makes DBM::Deep comply with Perl's behaviour - CPAN RT#60391

• Updated perl-Email-Address to 1.890:

  • Allow domainless addresses if requested

• I had to create a branch for the 1.889 version for releases with perl < 5.10.0 as this new version uses the branch reset pattern (?|) in a regex, which is new in perl 5.10.0; upstream plans to fix this in the next release, so the branch should be short-lived

• Updated perl-IPC-Run3 to 0.044:

  • Ignore user-defined __DIE__ handler in _type

  • Added test for __DIE__ handler behaviour

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 2.37:

  • Updated for 5.13.4

  • Remove 'Filespec' module (never in core, should have been 'VMS::Filespec')

• Updated perl-Moose to 1.10, bumping the Class::MOP dependency to 1.05:

  • The long-deprecated alias and excludes options for rôle applications now issue a deprecation warning; use -alias and -excludes instead

  • Inlined code no longer stringifies numeric attribute defaults

  • default => undef now works properly

  • enum type constraints now throw errors if their values are nonsensical

  • Optimizations that should help speed up compilation time

• Updated perl-Software-License to 0.102340:

  • Add PostgreSQL