Wednesday 10th February 2010
Fedora Project
Updated perl-SQL-Translator to fix a broken dependency (perl(Parse::RecDescent) >= 1.962002); the problem was precipitated by my update of perl-Parse-RecDescent yesterday from 1.962.2 to 1.963, and is because whilst perl considers 1.963 to be "later than" 1.962002, rpm considers the reverse to be the case. The previous version 1.962.2 package managed to avoid the problem because it had an unversioned "provide" for perl(Parse::RecDescent), which rpm considers to be any version and will always satisfy a versioned dependency, whereas the new version 1.963 package explicitly "provides" perl(Parse::RecDescent) = 1.963, which fails the dependency check despite actually being a later package version.
Local Packages
Updated perl-Pod-Coverage to update the spec to my latest template and rebuild it for perl 5.10.1 in the development branch; somehow I'd not built a Fedora 6 version of this package last time, and this was what had caused the POD coverage test failure in perl-Moose for Fedora 6 - it was building with version 1.18 from Fedora Extras instead of version 1.20 from my local repository
Added a couple of patches to perl-Test-NoTabs, firstly to silence a Parentheses missing around "my" list warning in old Perls (I raised CPAN RT#54477 about this issue) and secondly to fix and add a test case for CPAN RT#53727 (broken POD breaks tab detection); I had to tweak the original reporter's patch slightly to get it to work reliably though
Updated perl-Moose to 0.97 (fix ->reinitialize on a cached anonymous class, which destroyed the cache); I needed to add a patch to fix the "tabs" test because my patched version of perl-Test-NoTabs revealed a few tabs in the test suite that had been missed by the unpatched version (I raised CPAN RT#54478 for this issue). I also needed to update my patch to build with old versions of Test::More, and I added a versioned dependency on perl(Pod::Coverage) >= 0.20 to ensure that my Fedora 6 POD coverage issue would be more easily spotted if it happened again.