Monday 29th October 2012
Local Packages
Updated perl-Params-Validate to 1.07:
Params::Validate's XS implementation would overwrite $@ when validation subs were called (CPAN RT#80124)
The use of state in the POD was broken; it only works with scalars (CPAN RT#80250)
Updated perl-Perl-Critic-Pulp to 74:
Skip version.pm 1e6 test in RequireNumericVersion.t for now
Updated perl-SQL-Statement to 1.401:
- Switch to 3-digited minor version
- Undo literal replaces in sub-queries before passing them to the child parser
Fix doc typos (CPAN RT#71914, CPAN RT#76764)
Fix DROP TABLE behaviour and error detection
Improve documentation/tests for multiple JOINs (CPAN RT#69573)
Filling in the SQL92 gaps for functions (CPAN RT#72638)
- I found lots of compatibility issues in newly-added tests that affected Perl versions prior to 5.12; I'll try sending those upstream but I don't know how much interest there is in maintaining compatibility with legacy Perl releases