PaulHowarth/Blog/2010-05-24

Monday 24th May 2010

Local Packages

• Updated libidn to 1.19

  • Fix typos in docs
  • Add PDF version of API reference manual

  • Update gnulib files

  • Use valgrind -q in build to reduce verbosity

• Updated perl-HTTP-SimpleLinkChecker to 1.16 (fix 403 status test - CPAN RT#57584), dropping my patch for that issue, which is no longer needed

• Updated perl-YAML-Syck to 1.08:

  • POD link to JSON::XS from JSON::Syck

  • Add warning in YAML::Syck pod that the module is abandonware

  • Strings starting with : are now always quoted

  • Upgrade from Module::Install 0.68 to 0.97

  • Bump included Test::More dependency

  • Remove included inc/attributes.pm dependency

  • Add homepage, bugtracker, and repository metadata to META.yml

  • Bump perl dependency from 5.00307 to 5.006

• This build failed for distributions with perl < 5.10.0, like this:

• Can't locate object method "again" via package "FindBin" at inc/Module/Install.pm line 233.

• The again method was added to FindBin in perl 5.9.1 so I'm surprised that this isn't causing more widespread problems for users of Module::Install (the cpantesters results suggest that Module::Install itself passes its test suite on earlier perl versions, which is a bit strange). The following patch worked around the issue:

• The FindBin->again method requires perl 5.9.1 onwards
  
  --- YAML-Syck-1.08/inc/Module/Install.pm        2010-05-23 18:08:42.000000000 +0100
  +++ YAML-Syck-1.08/inc/Module/Install.pm        2010-05-24 10:31:18.841124078 +0100
  @@ -231,7 +231,8 @@
   sub new {
          my ($class, %args) = @_;
   
  -       FindBin->again;
  +       delete $INC{'FindBin.pm'};
  +       require FindBin;
   
          # ignore the prefix on extension modules built from top level.
          my $base_path = Cwd::abs_path($FindBin::Bin);

Fedora Project

• Built perl-Class-ErrorHandler, perl-Convert-PEM, and perl-Crypt-DES_EDE3 for EPEL-6