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Paul's Blog Entries for August 2011

Monday 1st August 2011

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Module-Load to 0.20:

  • Rebuild for various clean-ups such as removal of macros, fixing dist tag for CentOS 6, using patch instead of iconv:

    • unrar

    • weblint

    • weblint++

    • xv

    • xxdiff

Tuesday 2nd August 2011

Local Packages

  • Updated my builder to use kernel 2.6.40 so that I can use file capabilities on tmpfs (Bug #648653) and hence build packages for Fedora 15 onwards more quickly :-)

  • Updated my builder configuration for Fedora 3, 4, 5 and 6 to exclude libnet10 from Fedora Extras as it can get pulled in by yum in mock when a package has a build requirement of libnet-devel, even though there's higher versioned package of libnet-devel available (Bug #229297)

  • Updated my repository-building script to remove empty garbageid directories left around by createrepo (Bug #581628)

  • Updated mgdiff to use the tarball from ftp.x.org rather than the one I originally pulled from a SuSE source RPM a few years ago

  • Updated perl-Test-NoWarnings to 1.03:

    • Test::Builder and Test::Tester dependencies were the wrong way around (build vs. runtime)

  • I also reinstated the build requirements perl(Pod::Simple), perl(Test::CPAN::Meta), perl(Test::MinimumVersion) and perl(Test::Pod) that had been dropped for the 1.02 build, and run the release tests during the build

  • Rebuild for various clean-ups such as removal of macros, fixing dist tag for CentOS 6:
    • kernel-dummy

    • shorten

    • symlinks

    • tcptraceroute

    • torrentsniff

    • tzip

Wednesday 3rd August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.036 for F-15, built against the forthcoming xz 5.0.3 update for that release

  • Updated perl-Module-Metadata to 1.000005 in F-16 and Rawhide:

    • Localize $package::VERSION during version discovery

    • Fix references to Module::Build::ModuleInfo (CPAN RT#66133)

    • Added 'new_from_handle()' method (CPAN RT#68875)

    • Improved documentation (SYNOPSIS, broke out class/object method, and other minor edits)

  • I also changed the package to install into the vendor directories rather than the perl directories, as per just about every other module in Fedora

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Data-Section-Simple (0.02)

  • New package perl-Module-Extract-VERSION (1.01)

  • New package perl-Test-Version (1.0.0)

  • Updated curl to add a new option CURLOPT_GSSAPI_DELEGATION (Bug #719939)

  • Updated dkms to 2.2.0.2

  • Updated perl-Coro to 6.04:

    • Change how Coro patches AnyEvent condvars for compatibility with AnyEvent 6.x

    • Update ecb.h to no longer include <pthread.h> in case WinNT.h hasn't been included

  • Updated perl-CPAN-Meta to 2.112150:

    • Stringify any objects encountered during conversion (CPAN RT#67295)

    • Fixed some broken URLs in documentation and for LGPL in legacy conversion (CPAN RT#68738)

    • Fixed invalid private Pod in CPAN::Meta::Validator (CPAN RT#65925)

    • Clarified that file paths in the 'provides' section must be in Unix-style (i.e. forward slashes) (CPAN RT#69045)

    • Replaced examples using Module::Build::ModuleInfo with Module::Metadata (CPAN RT#66135)

  • I added new test build requirements: perl(Pod::Coverage::TrustPod), perl(Test::CPAN::Meta), perl(Test::Pod::Coverage), perl(Test::Portability::Files) and perl(Test::Version) ≥ 0.04

  • Updated perl-Locale-US to 2.112150 (largely rewritten, fixing CPAN RT#56989); I added new build requirements perl(Data::Section::Simple) and perl(Test::More), packaged the LICENSE file and added a patch to support building with ExtUtils::MakeMaker < 6.30

  • Updated perl-Module-Metadata to 1.000005 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Net-FTPSSL to 0.18:

    • More fixes/clarifications to the POD text
    • Fixed minor wildcard issue with LIST and NLST if "+" was in the filename

    • Added LocalAddr option to new(); works against both the command channel and the data channel

    • Added restart() function to be compatible with Net::FTP for restarts

    • Added ability to restart downloads/get() where the previous attempt left off

    • Added ability to restart uploads/put() where the previous attempt left off

    • Added append() command [APPE]; it also uses OFFSET, but doesn't send the REST command to the server

    • Masks out the user name used when generating a log file, similar to how this is already done for the password except that it must also hide it in the response to USER and PASS; it's only masked when written to the log - message() and last_message() still return the user name unmasked in any response string!

    • Fixed a bug in t/10-complex.t and added optional environment variables for some of the connection values to make it easier to quickly re-run tests during development without having to key in answers to questions with no good default values over and over again

    • Added SSL_Client_Certificate to support client certificates on the data channel as well as the command channel (CPAN RT#69327)

    • Deprecated SSL_Advanced in favour of SSL_Client_Certificate; SSL_Advanced is now just an alias for SSL_Client_Certificate for backwards compatibility; the new name better describes what we are trying to do with it now that this feature is supported

    • Wrote t/20-certificate.t to test this out, though this and t/10-complex.t are probably incompatible in most settings - anyone else trying to use this test case will have to modify the code to point to their certificate and provide its password, since the upstream test client certificate isn't going to be published

    • Calls to command() now return a reference to this class so that you can code something like:

    • if ($ftps->command("NOOP")->response() == CMD_OK)
    • Modifed Net::FTPSSL to use the new command()->response() format internally

Thursday 4th August 2011

Fedora Project

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Devel-Hide (0.0008)

  • Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.33:

    • Updated can_xs to fix a bug in it

  • Updated perl-namespace-clean to 0.21, dropping the no-longer-needed patch for building with old versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker, adding build requirement perl(Devel::Hide), needed for the new pure-perl test, and dropping no-longer-needed build requirements perl(Pod::Coverage::TrustPod), perl(Test::EOL), perl(Test::NoTabs), perl(Test::Pod) and perl(Test::Pod::Coverage):

    • Only invoke the deleted sub stashing if we run under a debugger (avoid runtime penalty of Sub::Name/Sub::Identify)

    • Spelling fixes (CPAN RT#54388)

    • When B::Hooks::EndOfScope is not available, switch to a simple tie() of %^H

    • Document how to disable the tie() fallback

  • Rebuild for various clean-ups such as removal of macros, fixing dist tag for CentOS 6:
    • pyserial

    • python-crypto

    • python-pyasn1

  • Updated svnmailer to fix "ImportError: cannot import name exceptions" traceback using patch based on one attached to Gentoo Bug #209857

Friday 5th August 2011

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Coro to 6.05:

    • Blush: condvar values would not be propagated from send to recv any more

    • Use exponential increase for the readline buffer length in Coro::Handle; also reduce initial allocation to 1020 from 4096 bytes

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.02, except for RHL-9 and RHEL-3 since 3.x now require perl ≥ 5.8.1:

    • Major refactoring of the whole code base; it finally runs under 'use strict' for the first time!

    • Typemaps can now be embedded into XS code using a here-doc like syntax and the new "TYPEMAP:" XS keyword

    • Move typemap handling code to ExtUtils::Typemaps with full object-oriented goodness

    • Check API compatibility when loading XS modules using the XS_APIVERSION_BOOTCHECK macro if on a new-enough perl

    • Fixed compiler warnings in XS

    • Spell-check
    • Define PERL_UNUSED_ARG for pre-3.8.9 perls, which should fix the tests

    • Add a check to Makefile.PL that scans @INC to determine whether the new xsubpp will be shadowed by another, existing xsubpp and warn the user vehemently

    • Add some diagnostics when xsubpp fails to load a current-enough version of ExtUtils::ParseXS

    • Patches from CPAN RT#53938, CPAN RT#61908, attempts to fix Win32 problems

    • Require perl 5.8.1

  • I excluded /usr/bin/xsubpp and its manpage from the package for the time being as they would conflict with the main perl or perl-devel packages (Bug #728393)

  • Updated perl-HTML-SimpleLinkExtor to 1.25:

    • Fix clear_links so it actually clears the links

    • Convert most tests to use subtest and Test::More 0.96

    • Clean-ups for the move to Github

  • I added a patch to support building with Test::More versions as old as 0.47 on RHL-9; that's the oldest I tried

Saturday 6th August 2011

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-BerkeleyDB to 0.49:

    • Documentation updated courtesy of Mike Caron
    • Croak if attempt to freeze BerkeleyDB object (CPAN RT#69985)

  • Rebuild for various clean-ups such as removal of macros, fixing dist tag for CentOS 6:
    • libnet

    • libxml2

    • libxslt (discovered rpm-build Bug #728959 whilst doing this one, resulting in some unexpectedly-packaged documentation)

    • nmap

    • perl-YAML-LibYAML

Sunday 7th August 2011

Fedora Project

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Module-Manifest (1.08)

  • New package perl-Pod-Wordlist-hanekomu (1.110090)

  • New package perl-Test-DistManifest (1.011)

  • Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 0.83a:

    • Fix spurious auto_diag warning (CPAN RT#69673)

    • Tested with 50 versions of perl, including 1.15.1

Monday 8th August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Updated gtkwave in F-16, Rawhide and EPEL-6 to 3.3.24:

    • Improve the searching for the TCL libraries (when using stubs)
    • Fixed bug where Tcl_GetString was substituted with brace removal preprocessing when unnecessary (would break addSignalsFromList, etc.)

  • Became owner of perl-Tree-DAG_Node and perl-Test-Warn in EPEL-4 (as Spot no longer has any interest in EL-4) and built them - needed for perl-Module-Manifest

  • Became owner of perl-Module-Manifest in EPEL, and built it for EPEL-4, EPEL-5 and EPEL-6

  • Submitted a review request for perl-Test-Vars, which was promptly approved by Emmanuel Seyman and I built it for F-14, F-15, F-16, Rawhide and EPEL-6 (no builds for EPEL-4 or EPEL-5 as it requires perl ≥ 5.10.0)

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Test-Vars (0.001)

  • Updated gtkwave as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Params-Check to 0.32:

    • Removed unnecessary use of Data::Dumper

  • Updated perl-Test-Spelling to add a patch for releases with hunspell < 1.2.8, in which hunspell doesn't treat the "C" locale as being equivalent to the "en_US" locale, causing test failures on Fedora 9 and 10 because it can't find a working speller for the default locale

  • Rebuild perl-Test-Requires without a workaround previously added for the Test::Spelling issue above

Tuesday 9th August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Package-Stash-XS to 0.23 in F-16 and Rawhide:

    • Fix the test for scalar values, again
    • Disallow assigning globrefs to scalar glob slots (this doesn't actually make any sense)
  • Updated perl-Package-Stash to 0.31 in F-16 and Rawhide:

    • Fix ->add_symbol('$foo', qr/sdlfk/) on 5.12+

    • Fix ->add_symbol('$foo', \v1.2.3) on 5.10+

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Test-Has-Version (0.012)

  • Updated perl-Coro to 6.06:

    • Cygwin unfortunately patches the stack at runtime, so we use the pthreads backend, which is an order of magnitude slower; unfortunately, Cygwin's pthread implementation isn't very complete either, so allocate the stack twice just to be sure

  • Updated perl-Package-Stash-XS to 0.23 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Package-Stash to 0.31 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Pod-Wordlist-hanekomu to BR: perl(Test::HasVersion) and perl(Test::Vars) for full release test coverage

Wednesday 10th August 2011

Fedora Project

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Test-CPAN-Meta-JSON (0.10)

Thursday 11th August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Became owner of perl-JSON in new EPEL-4 branch and built it

  • Updated perl-Test-Spelling in F-14 and F-15 to 0.14; it's been in F-16 and Rawhide for months now, including through the Perl mass rebuild, and Test::Spelling ≥ 0.12 was needed for perl-Test-Mojibake

  • Submitted a review request for perl-Test-Mojibake

  • Updated tidyp to fix mangling of non-ASCII output filenames (Bug #725651) since an upstream release addressing the issue doesn't seem to be on the cards any time soon

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Test-Mojibake (0.3)

  • New package perl-Unicode-CheckUTF8 (1.03)

  • I raised CPAN RT#70210 to ask upstream to specify the license for this module

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.03, reinstating %{_bindir}/xsubpp and its manpage if we have perl ≥ 5.12.4, as per F-15 onwards (conflict with perl-devel in Bug #728393 was fixed in perl-5.12.4-160):

    • Test fix: Try all @INC-derived typemap locations (CPAN RT#70047)

  • Updated perl-JSON-XS to 2.32:

    • Fix a bug in the initial whitespace accumulation
  • Updated perl-Test-Version to not run the author/release tests when bootstrapping, BR: perl(Test::DistManifest) unconditionally now that it's available locally, and to additional BR's for improved release test coverage:

    • aspell-en/aspell-en-gb

    • perl(Pod::Wordlist::hanekomu)

    • perl(Test::CPAN::Meta::JSON)

    • perl(Test::Mojibake)

    • perl(Test::Vars)

Friday 12th August 2011

Fedora Project

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Mail-IMAPClient to 3.29:

    • CPAN RT#69876: ENVELOPE as part of fetch_hash convenience method: added Mail::IMAPClient::BodyStructure::Envelope->parse_string($str) convenience method for handling ENVELOPE data from fetch_hash

    • CPAN RT#68310: folders() should not call exists()/STATUS: use selectable() instead of exists() in call

    • Ensure separator is set properly in folders()

    • selectable now properly checks for \Noselect flag

    • Update folders() POD to match implementation behaviour

    • CPAN RT#68648: CAPABILITY after authenticate

    • Delete cache after State set toAuthenticate

    • State() is no longer an auto-generated method

    • Fix CPAN RT#68755: Provided socket loses blocking in 3.19-3.28

  • Updated perl-Module-Extract-VERSION to filter bogus provide for perl(ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version) (Bug #728286)

  • Updated python-zope-interface to 3.6.5:

    • LP#804951: InterfaceClass instances were unhashable under Python 3.x

    • LP#811792: Work around buggy behaviour in some subclasses of zope.interface.interface.InterfaceClass, which invoke __hash__ before initializing __module__ and __name__; the workaround returns a fixed constant hash in such cases, and issues a UserWarning

    • LP#804832: Under PyPy, zope.interface should not build its C extension; also prevent attempting to build it under Jython

    • Add a tox.ini for easier xplatform testing

    • Fix testing deprecation warnings issued when tested under Py3K

  • Initially I found that the test suite failed (in a new test just added):
  •  ======================================================================
     FAIL: test_hash_missing_required_attrs (zope.interface.tests.test_interface.InterfaceTests)
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "/builddir/build/BUILD/zope.interface-3.6.5/src/zope/interface/tests/test_interface.py", line 420, in test_hash_missing_required_attrs
         self.assertEqual(len(warned), 1)
     AssertionError: 0 != 1
     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     Ran 167 tests in 0.209s
     FAILED (failures=1)
  • I added a patch to resolve this and sent it upstream (LP#825249)

  • I also added a second patch to remove the problematic test altogether if we have python 2.4, as it uses the "with" statement introduced in Python 2.5; all other tests pass with 2.4, and upstream skips the test on Python 2.5 for other reasons so it's not that important

Sunday 14th August 2011

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-AnyEvent to 6.0 but after discussion with upstream it appears that the 6.0 release shouldn't actually have happened so I reverted it

  • Updated python-zope-interface to 3.7.0:

    • LP#825249: fix test_hash_missing_required_attrs

Monday 15th August 2011

Local Packages

  • Created an initial java-1.7.0-oracle spec, based on a java-1.7.0-sun spec sent to me by Knut Jørgen Bjuland; unfortunately the old Java program I use is EMC NetWorker's management console, and that hasn't been ported to Java 7 yet (it doesn't work) so I'm holding off doing a full write-up on it

  • Rebuilt libgcrypt 1.5.0 due to rpm bug #728707

Tuesday 16th August 2011

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Perl6-Junction (1.40000)

  • New package perl-Pod-Coverage-Moose (0.02)

  • Updated curl to fix SIGSEGV of curl -O -J given more than one URL (Bug #723075), introduce the --delegation option of curl (Bug #730444), and initialize NSS with no database if the selected database is broken (Bug #728562)

  • Updated libssh2 to 1.2.9:

    • Added libssh2_session_set_timeout() and libssh2_session_get_timeout() to make blocking calls get a timeout

    • configure and pkg-config: fix $VERSION

    • s/\.NF/.nf/ to fix wrong macro name caught by man --warnings

    • keepalive: add first basic man pages

    • sftp_write: flush the packetlist on error

    • sftp_write: clean offsets on error

    • msvcproj: added libs and debug stuff

    • SCP: fix incorrect error code

    • session_startup: init state properly

    • sftp_write_sliding: send the complete file

    • userauth_keyboard_interactive: skip code on zero length auth

    • _libssh2_wait_socket: fix timeouts for poll() uses

    • agent_list_identities: fix out of scope access

    • _libssh2_recv(): handle ENOENT error as EAGAIN

    • userauth_keyboard_interactive: fix buffer overflow

    • Removed man pages for non-existing functions!
    • gettimeofday: fix name space pollution

    • _libssh2_channel_write: handle window_size == 0 better

  • Updated perl-Class-Load to 0.08:

    • The previous version was missing a prereq declaration for Data::OptList (CPAN RT#70285)

  • The distribution has been converted to Dist::Zilla and a bunch of release tests added, so packaging-wise there were a lot of changes:

    • This release by DROLSKY -> update source URL

    • Package new documentation: LICENSE and README

    • Add build requirements for new release tests and run them:
      • perl(Pod::Coverage::Moose)

      • perl(Test::CPAN::Changes)

      • perl(Test::EOL)

      • perl(Test::NoTabs)

      • perl(Test::Pod)

      • perl(Test::Pod::Coverage)

      • perl(Test::Requires)

      • perl(Test::Spelling) and aspell/aspell-en-gb

    • Add patch for building with ExtUtils::MakeMaker < 6.30

    • Add patch for building with Test::More < 0.88

    • Add patch for building without Pod::Coverage::Moose

    • Add patch for building without Test::Requires

    • Add patch for fixing spell checker word list
    • Update patch for building without Test::Fatal (using Test::Exception instead)

Wednesday 17th August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML in Rawhide to install to vendor perl directories rather than private perl directories

  • Updated perl-Perl-OSType in Rawhide to build with perl(Pod::Coverage::TrustPod) unconditionally now that it's available in EPEL-4

  • Updated perl-Test-Requires in EPEL-6 to build using hunspell-en rather than aspell-en now that RHEL-6's perl-Test-Spelling package has been updated to use hunspell rather than aspell (Bug #731272)

Local Packages

  • Updated c-ares to 1.7.5:

    • Detection of semicolon comments in resolv.conf

    • Avoid using system's inet_net_pton affected by the WLB-2008080064 advisory

    • Replacement ares_inet_net_pton affected by the WLB-2008080064 advisory

    • Replacement ares_inet_ntop affected by potential out of bounds write

    • Added install target to Makefile.msvc

    • Only fall back to AF_INET searches when looking for AF_UNSPEC addresses

    • Fixed ares_parse_*_reply memory leaks

    • Use correct sizeof in ares_getnameinfo()

    • IPv6-on-windows: find DNS servers correctly
    • man pages: docs for the c-ares utility programs

    • getservbyport replacement for Win CE

    • config_sortlist: (win32) missing else

    • advance_tcp_send_queue: avoid NULL pointer dereference

    • configure: fix a bash-ism

    • ares_expand_name: Fix encoded length for indirect root

  • Updated java-1.6.0-sun to Java SE 6 Update 27 along with tzupdater 1.3.40 but unfortunately it doesn't work with my test case of the EMC NetWorker Management Console (Could not initialize class COM.legato.gwt.gtpanel.GtUtils), which worked fine with Update 26, so I'm not updating SunJava6OnFedora until I've identified where the problem is

  • Updated perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML to install to vendor perl directories rather than private perl directories

Thursday 18th August 2011

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Test-Most to 0.25:

    • Add timeit() function to time individual behaviours

Friday 19th August 2011

Local Packages

  • Unbundled perl-DateTime-Locale and perl-DateTime-Timezone from perl-DateTime as per the Fedora versions; they're all built from their own SRPMs now

  • Updated perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon to 0.91:

    • Added support to the TT2 parser for Mojolicious style tags

    • Documentation changes
  • I originally worked on 0.90 but there was a problem with test counts in t/5-extract.t so I sent a patch upstream, and 0.91 was promptly issued with the fix

  • I added perl(Template) ≥ 2.20 as a build requirement from F-11 onwards (the package is too old in earlier releases) for additional test coverage

  • Updated perl-MIME-Types to 1.32:

    • Explain how to use MIME::Types in mod_perl; when you do not read the documentation about mod_perl/fork it will work as always, but inefficiently

Saturday 20th August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Built perl-Pod-Wordlist-hanekomu (1.110090) and perl-Test-Mojibake (0.3) for F-14 and F-15 now that perl-Test-DistManifest has been pushed to stable for those releases

Sunday 21st August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Patched curl with an additional upstream fix for SIGSEGV of curl -O -J given more than one URL (Bug #723075); builds for F-15 and F-16 completed successfully but the Rawhide build (same code as F-16) failed its test suite and I'll need to look into that. I've not pushed any updates for this as there's already an important update in the queue and I don't want to obsolete it for this relatively trivial issue

Local Packages

  • Updated curl as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 2.55:

    • Updated for v5.15.2
  • Updated perl-version to 0.94:

    • Prevent DIE handlers in user code from tripping up loading version, and add test to ensure that handling is correct (CPAN RT#70260)

    • Tweak POD and add LICENSE to Makefile.PL (CPAN RT#70120)

Monday 22nd August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Patched curl in F-14 with an additional upstream fix for SIGSEGV of curl -O -J given more than one URL (Bug #723075) though due to issues with the test suite it took me 11 attempts to get it to build

  • Looked into updating perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel to 0.59 for Bug #731907 and found that it needed Digest::Perl::MD5, which isn't currently packaged in Fedora. It's supposed to replaceable by Digest::MD5, which is in Fedora but unfortunately Spreadsheet::ParseExcel uses private data from within Digest::Perl::MD5 rather than using the proper API so using Digest::MD5 doesn't work. I created a perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 package and Petr Sabata kindly reviewed it.

Tuesday 23rd August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Built curl in Rawhide at the second attempt today (4 attempts altogether); similar problems to those affecting the F-14 build yesterday

  • Updated perl-Test-Spelling to 0.15 in F-16 and Rawhide:

    • Begin adding actual tests (hilariously, adding the suggested t/pod-spell.t to this dist to test itself found a typo: "stopwards")

  • I added new build requirements of perl(Test::Tester) and an English dictionary

  • Built new package perl-Digest-Perl-MD5 (1.8) for EPEL-4, EPEL-5, EPEL-6, F-14, F-15, F-16 and Rawhide

  • Updated perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel to 0.59 in EPEL-6, F-16 and Rawhide to address Bug #731907

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Test-Spelling to 0.15 as per the Fedora version, and I also needed to add various patches to support dictionaries in older releases that didn't have all the necessary words to pass the t/pod-spell.t test, building with perl < 5.8.3 and building with Test::More < 0.88

Wednesday 24th August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Submitted a review request for perl-Unicode-CheckUTF8, which makes perl-Test-Mojibake faster if available

  • Updated spamass-milter in all branches to add a patch that helps with users with a Postfix MTA and users doing SMTP AUTH but not using the milter's -I option to not pass mail from authenticated users through SpamAssassin; Postfix doesn't support Sendmail's {auth_ssf} macro that's used to add the (authenticated bits=nnn) information into the dummy Received: header that the milter passes to SpamAssassin, so in its absence, the milter now just adds (authenticated) rather than omitting the information altogether, which is sufficient for SpamAssassin to consider the sender as a trusted source (Bug #730308)

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Moose to 2.0203:

    • is_class_loaded now properly detects packages that have a version object in their $VERSION

    • Fix XS compilation under bleadperl

  • Updated perl-Pod-Simple to 3.19:

    • Fixed occasional test failure when tests are run in parallel (HARNESS_OPTIONS=j6:c)

    • Added "pod_handler" option, a callback that can be used to inspect the content on a "=pod" line

    • Added tests for proper line-ending parsing from the previous release
    • Added the "parse_empty_lists" option (disabled by default); when enabled, Pod::Simple will recognize empty lists (that is, blocks with '=over' and '=back' but nothing in between)

    • Added the "whiteline_handler" attribute, much like "code_handler", "cut_handler", and "pod_handler", except it's triggered on lines that contain only whitespace characters

    • Added "raw" attribute to L<> treelet that contains the L<>'s raw contents

    • Pod directives autoclosed by Pod::Simple are now denoted as such by the new "fake_closer" attribute

    • Fixed incompatibility with Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch in Pod::Simple::XHTML

  • I had to add a patch to support building with Test::More < 0.88 (CPAN RT#70456)

  • Updated spamass-milter as per the Fedora version

Thursday 25th August 2011

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.04:

    • Properly strip trailing semicolons from inputmaps, which could trigger warnings (errors in strict C89 compilers) due to additional semicolons being interpreted as empty statements
    • Now detects and throws a warning if there is a CODE section using RETVAL, but no OUTPUT section (CPAN RT#69536)

    • Uses the explicit XS_EXTERNAL macro (from perl 5.15.2 and newer) for XSUBs that need to be exported; defines XS_EXTERNAL to fall back to XS where that is not available

    • Introduces new EXPORT_XSUB_SYMBOLS XS keyword that forces exported XSUB symbols; it's a no-op on perls before 5.15.2

    • Try to fix regression for input-typemap override in XS argument list (CPAN RT#70448)

    • Explicit versions in submodules to fail early if something goes wrong
  • Updated perl-XML-LibXML to 1.85, adding a patch to fix the missing symbol SvPVx_nolen on perl < 5.8.8 (raised as CPAN RT#70476):

    • Gracefully handle returned undef()s in the read callback under -w ($^W); add t/49callbacks_returning_undef.t (CPAN RT#70321)

    • Add a patch from Mithaldu to get XML::LibXML to compile on Win32 (CPAN RT#70141)

  • Updated perl-XML-LibXML to 1.86, dropping the now-redundant patch for (CPAN RT#70476):

    • Changed SvPVx_nolen() to SvPV_nolen() in LibXML.xs for better compatibility; SvPVx_nolen() appears to be undocumented API (CPAN RT#70476)

Friday 26th August 2011

Fedora Project

  • Built perl-Pod-Wordlist-hanekomu for EPEL-4, EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 now that perl-Test-DistManifest is available there

  • Built perl-Test-CPAN-Meta-JSON for EPEL-4 now that perl-JSON is available there

  • Built perl-Test-Mojibake for EPEL-4, EPEL-5 and EPEL-6 now that perl-Test-DistManifest is available there

PPTP Client Project

  • Updated pptp-release to fix the dist tag for builds with CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux

  • Updated pptpconfig not to use macros for commands

  • Created Fedora 16 repositories

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-AnyEvent to 6.01:

    • Incompatible Change: verbosity levels have been redefined; see AnyEvent (PERL_ANYEVENT_VERBOSE) and AnyEvent::Log for details

    • New function: AnyEvent::log

    • New module: AnyEvent::Log, for simple logging needs

    • New env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_LOG, for fine-grained logging configuration

    • New env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_HOSTS, to override the place where the /etc/hosts file can be found

    • An empty PERL_ANYEVENT_RESOLV_CONF now selects the default configuration

    • Environment variables can now be specified using AE_xyz instead of PERL_ANYEVENT_xyz, subject to some rules

    • Lots of new AnyEvent::Debug functionality

    • AnyEvent::Strict now checks for modifications of $_ by the callback (by setting it to readonly while executing the callback, if possible)

    • AnyEvent::Socket::resolve_sockaddr and all functions using it now support /etc/hosts overrides

    • Do not run event loop detection multiple times when programs call their cached copies of AnyEvent::detect

    • parse_hostport now accepts absolute paths as unix domain sockets

    • Suppress the idiotic warning inside POE by patching the POE::Kernel run flags instead of asking the user to jump through contortions

    • Add Task::Weaken as dependency (as recommends only at this time)

    • Replace PF_UNSPEC by 0, for good old Minix

  • This major update also had a bunch of packaging changes:
    • Drop now-redundant patch removing FLTK2 references

    • Package manpages for AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2 and AnyEvent::Log

    • Add build and runtime dependencies for perl(Task::Weaken)

    • Make the build dependency on perl(Net::SSLeay) unconditional as although the SSL test still emits a "Too late to run CHECK block" warning prior to perl 5.10, the test still passes

    • Add build dependencies on perl(Event::Lib), perl(Glib) ≥ 1.210, perl(POE) and perl(Tk) where possible (i.e. pull in from Fedora/EPEL) for the event loop tests

    • Add a build dependency on perl(Time::HiRes)

    • Filter the bogus provide of perl(DB)

  • These changes were on top of the unpublished changes of 6.0 on August 14th, which for the record were:
    • Incompatible Change: AnyEvent::DNS resource records now include the TTL as fourth element - this affects ->resolve directly, and ->request and ->dns_unpack indirectly; convenience functions such as AnyEvent::DNS::{a,txt,mx,srv} are not affected, and neither is AnyEvent::Socket

    • Incompatible Change: backend authors now should not implement one_event or loop, but instead the AnyEvent::CondVar::_wait and _poll methods

    • Deprecation: please change "use AnyEvent::Impl::Perl" to "use AnyEvent::Loop" and "AnyEvent::Impl::Perl::loop" to "AnyEvent::Loop::run" in your programs, for future compatibility

    • Idle watcher emulation was borked
    • AnyEvent::Strict now checks the AE::xxx functions as well

    • Querying too-long domain names would barf deep inside AnyEvent::DNS; since this is hard to avoid for applications, AnyEvent:.DNS::request now checks for too-long domain names explicitly and passes an undef to the callback instead

    • Make AnyEvent::Util more robust against EINTR

    • New function: AnyEvent::postpone

    • New env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_SHELL, to automatically start a debug shell

    • New env variable, PERL_ANYEVENT_DEBUG_WRAP, to automatically enable watcher instrumentation/wrapping (see AnyEvent::Debug::wrap)

    • IO::Async sometimes cancels the wrong timer when you call cancel_timer; invest extra overhead to work around this peculiar behaviour

    • Split the pure perl backend into a loop module and an impl module (AnyEvent::Loop and AnyEvent::Impl::Perl)

    • Some read types (regex, netstring, json, storable) could erroneously keep an AE::Handle object alive on their own

    • Add more workarounds around child watcher bugs in IO::Async and (newly-introduced) in POE

    • Use glib child watchers and try to work around its limitations, if possible

    • Add support for FLTK (fltk2) via AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2

    • Many read types in AnyEvent::Handle would malfunction during transitions to TLS because of a "delete $self->{rbuf}"

    • Improve condvar blocking wait performance (probably only noticeable with faster backends) and also make it easier for event loops that do not support blocking waits

    • PERL_ANYEVENT_MODEL now also allows full module names, although the usefulness of this feature is not yet clear

    • Add tests for all supported event loops, conditional on PERL_ANYEVENT_LOOP_TESTS

    • Add t/80_ssltext.t

    • No longer use AUTOLOAD for the initial loading (for no very good reason)

    • tcp_server now tries to unlink unix domain sockets when it gets destroyed

  • Packaging changes for 6.0:
    • Patch AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2 out of Makefile.PL as upstream forgot to ship it

    • Package new manpage for AnyEvent::Loop

    • Add new build dependencies for tests: perl(EV), perl(Event), perl(Net::SSLeay)

  • I then updated perl-AnyEvent again, this time to 6.02:

    • log_to_syslog now accepts facility strings

    • log_to_syslog would not allow facilities - "$facility|$level" literally means that string

    • The CPAN parser got confused and thought we provide Sys::Syslog; try to work around it

    • Rename AnyEvent::Impl::FLTK2 to FLTK

  • Updated perl-Moose to 2.0204:

    • Validating duck_type type constraint turned out to work only by accident, and only when not running under the debugger; this has been fixed

    • Loosen the dependency on ExtUtils::ParseXS

  • Updated proftpd to fix the dist tag for builds with CentOS 6 and Scientific Linux

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