PaulHowarth/Blog/2010-11-22

Monday 22nd November 2010

Fedora Project

  • Became co-maintainer of perl-Test-Requires in EPEL-6 and updated it to the latest upstream version (0.06)

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Class-Load (0.06)

  • New package perl-parent (0.224)

  • Updated perl-DateTime to update DateTime::TimeZone to 1.26, adding new build requirements perl(parent) and perl(Class::Load), plus a patch for better dictionary coverage in the DateTime::TimeZone spelling check test:

    • All modules in the distro now have the same $VERSION

    • Based on version 2010n of the Olson database (updates for Fiji)
    • Attempting to determine the local time zone while inside a sort subroutine could cause an error "Can't return outside a subroutine", caused by stack corruption that happens when an eval "use $module" fails (CPAN RT#63106)

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 2.41:

    • Updated for 5.13.7
  • Updated perl-Params-Util to 1.03:

    • Add a much more advanced can_xs() alternative to can_cc() to deal with the situation where a host has a superficially working compiler, but completely screwed up headers

    • Add some fall-back strategies to deal with cases where these same machines don't support configure_requires

    • Adopt Chorny's eumm-upgrade style for the Makefile.PL

    • Allow the Makefile.PL to build its own META.yml now

  • Update perl-YAML-Syck to 1.17:

    • Change a C99 comment to a C89 comment
    • Upgrade ppport.h from 3.13 to 3.19

    • Remove inc/Test/Builder/IO/Scalar.pm from MANIFEST

    • POD formatting fixes contributed by Justin Hunter
  • Updated php-Smarty to 3.0.5:

    • Smarty now follows the PHP error_reporting level by default


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