Monday 2nd August 2010
Fedora Project
Raised EL-6 branch requests for perl-Devel-Cycle (Bug #620410), perl-Pod-Spell (Bug #620411), perl-Test-Memory-Cycle (Bug #620413), perl-Exception-Class (Bug #620416), perl-Test-Spelling (Bug #620419), perl-String-Format (Bug #620420), perl-B-Keywords (Bug #620421), and perl-Perl-Critic (Bug #620423). These are all packages already in EL-6 - but not on the ppc64 architecture, so we need to rebuild the EL-6 packages in EPEL for full architecture coverage. Rob Myers, EPEL maintainer for all of these packages except perl-Exception-Class, quickly offered me co-maintainership of his EPEL packages, which I took up.
Raised an EL-6 branch request for perl-MIME-Lite (Bug #620459), which was included in EL-6 as recently as Beta 2 but mysteriously dropped from the Beta 2 Refresh
Local Packages
Branched my repository for Fedora 14; the development repository is now targeting Fedora 15
Updated libidn to move the shared library from /usr/lib to /lib as per the Fedora package for F-9 and EL-6 onwards (Bug #283651); this was particularly necessary to avoid a broken dependency with guestfish
Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.43:
- Changes to build with BDB 5.1
Dropped support for Server option when creating an environment
Documentation updates (CPAN RT#59202)
Fixed compilation error with MS Visual Studio 2005 (CPAN RT#59924)
Updated perl-Test-LeakTrace to 0.13:
Use ">= 0", instead of "== 0" for no_leaks_ok()
Add count_sv() to count all the SVs in a perl interpreter
Fix tests for older perls