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    PaulHowarth/Blog/2012-03-18

Sunday 18th March 2012

Fedora Project

  • Became co-maintainer of perl-Email-MIME, perl-Email-MIME-Modifier, perl-File-HomeDir, perl-Params-Util, perl-PPI and perl-Sub-Exporter in EPEL-5

  • Updated libssh2 in Rawhide not to try to use openssl's AES-CTR functions (http://www.libssh2.org/mail/libssh2-devel-archive-2012-03/0111.shtml)

  • Updated perl-File-HomeDir to 0.86 in EPEL-5 (Bug #803044):

    • Add a special case to pass users_home(current user) on to my_home

    • Add 'my_dot_config'

    • Add a base driver class
    • File::HomeDir should now support "Perl on a Stick"

    • Localise $@ during evals

    • When we get more than one warning, diag the warnings so that we actually have a chance to get rid of the extra warnings

    • Bug fix for the 64-bit implementation
  • Updated perl-Params-Util to 1.00 in EPEL-5 (Bug #803307):

    • Added the _NONNEGINT function

    • Removed the deprecated _CALLABLE function

    • Added XS implementation for much-improved performance

    • Fixed the overload for _REGEX

    • Fixed _IDENTIFIER to return false for "foo\n"

    • Fixed _CLASS to return false for "foo\n"

    • Various test suite fixes
  • Updated perl-PPI to 1.201 in EPEL-5 (Bug #803301):

    • Improved lexing correctness
    • Partial implementation of literal

    • Initial implementation of Number classes

    • Fixed various regression cases
    • Fixed some parser corner cases
    • Added parser timeout support
    • Added some housekeeping tweaks
    • Support for a few more rare/legacy Perl syntax

    • Tokenizer simplification, optimization and exception'ification
    • Various small bug fixes
  • Updated perl-Sub-Exporter in Rawhide to remove %defattr, redundant since rpm 4.4

  • Updated perl-Sub-Exporter to 0.982 in EPEL-5 (Bug #799993):

    • Fixed merge_col, which was not updated to work with name generators

    • Fixed inadvertent futzing with group generator args (CPAN RT#38885)

    • Fixed very occasional hash ordering issue in tests
    • Major refactoring of the core generation/installation code, and tentative interface documentation for replacing it
    • Collector hooks can now alter @_ to replace the value to be collected

    • Clarified args passed to generator in Tutorial

    • Improved documentation of new installer/generator options
    • Added INIT collector

    • Declared reservation of all CAPS collectors
    • Clarified documentation of -setup

    • Fixed typo in SYNOPSIS

    • Calling "installer" the "exporter" is no longer supported; no packages in EPEL-5 are affected by this

  • Built perl-Data-Section (0.101621) in EPEL-5 (first EPEL-5 build)

  • Built perl-Software-License (0.103004) in EPEL-5 (first EPEL-5 build)

  • Built perl-Module-CPANTS-Analyse (0.85) in EPEL-5 (first EPEL-5 build)

  • Built perl-File-Find-Rule-Perl (1.09) in EPEL-5 (first EPEL-5 build)

  • Built perl-Perl-MinimumVersion (1.20) in EPEL-5 (first EPEL-5 build)

  • Built perl-Test-MinimumVersion (0.011) in EPEL-5 (first EPEL-5 build)

Local Packages

  • Updated libssh2 as per the Fedora version


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