PaulHowarth/Blog/2010-02-16

Tuesday 16th February 2010

Fedora Project

  • Took ownership of the orphaned python-crypto package and updated it to 2.1.0 in devel

  • Updated bluefish in devel branch to 2.0.0

  • Fixed FTBFS bug (Bug #564718) in perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime. The problem causing the build failure was that perl's idea of version numbering differs from rpm's idea of it. The package had a buildreq of perl(DateTime) >= 0.4304, which is how upstream specify the requirement. However, Fedora has recently updated to perl(DateTime) version 0.53, which in perl would be fine but rpm believes this to be a lower version than 0.4304. I resolved this by bumping the buildreq to 0.44, the oldest 2-digit version that satisfies the requirement. The resulting package then got as far as building, but the test suite failed due to an incompatibility (see upstream ticket 19) with perl(DateTime::Locale) version 0.43, also recently updated in Fedora. Updating perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime to the current upstream version 1.1000 resolved that problem.

  • Updated proftpd in devel branch to 1.3.2d maintenance release

Local Packages

  • Updated bluefish to 2.0.0

  • Updated libidn to 1.18 (fix symbol export problem for a few variables); fixed doc file dependency on /usr/bin/perl for devel package

  • Updated moin for distributions with python 2.3 to 1.8.7 (fix major security issues in various parts of moin)

  • Updated perl-Params-Validate to 0.95

  • Updated perl-Parse-RecDescent to add a patch to fix uninitialized value warnings (CPAN RT#54457)

  • Updated perl-PPI to 1.210 (packaging fixes); use RELEASE_TESTING rather than AUTOMATED_TESTING for better test coverage

  • Updated proftpd to 1.3.2d maintenance release, fixing 5 upstream bugs

  • Updated python-crypto to 2.1.0


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