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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2011-11-18

Friday 18th November 2011

Fedora Project

  • Updated my perl-Class-Load-XS package for review to 0.03:

    • Explicitly include Test::Fatal as a test prerequisite (CPAN RT#72493)

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 in Rawhide to 2.042 (no changes)

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma in Rawhide to 2.042 (no changes)

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib in Rawhide to 2.042 (no changes)

  • Updated perl-IO-Compress in Rawhide to 2.042:

    • IO::Compress::Zip:

      • Added exUnixN option to allow creation of the "ux" extra field, which allows 32-bit UID/GID to be stored

      • In one-shot mode use exUnixN rather than exUnix2 for the UID/GID

    • IO::Compress::Zlib::Extra::parseExtraField:

  • Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma in Rawhide to 2.042 (no changes)

Local Packages

  • Updated curl to 7.23.1:

    • Windows: curl would fail if it found no CA cert, unless -k was used - even if a non-SSL protocol URL was used

  • Updated perl-Class-Load-XS to 0.03 as per the Fedora submission

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 to 2.042 as per the Fedora package

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma to 2.042 as per the Fedora package

  • Updated perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib to 2.042 as per the Fedora package

  • Updated perl-IO-Compress to 2.042 as per the Fedora package

  • Updated perl-IO-Compress-Lzma to 2.042 as per the Fedora package

  • Updated python-twisted-core to 11.1.0 (lots of changes; see NEWS for details); I dropped the zsh subpackage as that functionality is now included in zsh itself

  • Updated python-twisted-conch to 11.1.0 (lots of changes; see NEWS for details)

  • Updated python-twisted-lore to 11.1.0:

    • When run from an unpacked source tarball or a VCS checkout, bin/lore/lore will now use the version of Twisted it is part of (#3526)

    • Removed compareMarkPos and comparePosition from lore.tree, deprecated in Twisted 9.0 (#5127)

  • Updated python-twisted-mail to 11.1.0:

    • twisted.mail.smtp.LOGINCredentials now generates challenges with ":" instead of "\0" for interoperability with Microsoft Outlook (#4692)

    • When run from an unpacked source tarball or a VCS checkout, bin/mail/mailmail will now use the version of Twisted it is part of (#3526)

    • Check for twistd mail's --hostname option whenever the --esmtp option has been given and emit a useful error message if the former is not found, as the latter requires it (#4796)

    • Improve python3 compatibility (#5006)

  • Updated python-twisted-names to 11.1.0:

    • twisted.names.dns.Message now parses records of unknown type into instances of a new UnknownType class (#4603)

    • twisted.names.dns.Name now detects loops in names it is decoding and raises an exception; previously it would follow the loop forever, allowing a remote denial of service attack against any twisted.names client or server (#5064)

    • twisted.names.hosts.Resolver now supports IPv6 addresses; its lookupAddress method now filters them out and its lookupIPV6Address method is now implemented (#5098)

  • Updated python-twisted-news to 11.1.0 (no significant changes have been made for this release)

  • Updated python-twisted-runner to 11.1.0 (no significant changes have been made for this release)

  • Updated python-twisted-web to 11.1.0 (see NEWS for details)

  • Updated python-twisted-words to 11.1.0 (see NEWS for details)

  • Updated python-twisted to 11.1.0, with requires for version 11.1.0 of sub-projects


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