PaulHowarth/Blog/2015-01-26

Monday 26th January 2015

Fedora Project

  • Submitted a review request for a perl-Test-RequiresInternet package

  • Updated perl-Cache-Cache to 1.08 in Rawhide:

    • Try to avoid some race conditions
    • Typo fixes

  • Updated perl-Class-MethodMaker to 2.22 in Rawhide:

    • Use File::Temp::tmpnam as needed in Android

  • Updated perl-Test-YAML-Meta to 0.21 in Rawhide:

    • Changes file dates changed to meet W3CDTF standards

    • Reworked Makefile.PL for clarity

    • Upgraded to Test::CPAN::Meta::JSON for tests

    • Added META.json

    • Updated test suite
    • Added repositories to Meta files
    • Consistent abstract

    • INSTALL documentation update

    • Extended META test suite

    • Fixed license fields in META.json to be lists

    • Added WARNING notice

  • Updated perl-YAML to 1.14 in Rawhide:

    • Add support for QuoteNumericStrings global setting (PR/145)

Local Packages

  • New package perl-Test-RequiresInternet (0.03)

  • Updated perl-DateTime-TimeZone to 1.84:

    • Removed the per-OS prereqs on DateTime::TimeZone::HPUX and DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Win32; this gets rid of circular dependencies between those distros and this one (CPAN RT#68231,101588,101589)

  • Updated perl-IO-stringy to avoid a doc-file dependency on /usr/bin/perl on recent distributions with rpm ≥ 4.9 (not worth fixing on older distributions really)

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-API to 0.50:

    • Convert to Moo

    • Use Types::Standard

    • Remove Module::Build

    • Deprecate using x_deprecate meta-data

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-API-Tiny to add spec file boilerplate needed for builds on old distributions (now working all the way back to F-5)

  • Updated perl-Module-Build to 0.4211:

    • Fix t/actions/installdeps.t to work on "perl in space"

    • Stop using version->normal(); prefer stringify()

    • inc::latest has been split out to a separate distribution on CPAN; it is an optional prerequisite, only needed for the experimental bundling feature

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20150120:

    • Updated for v5.21.8

  • Updated perl-Test-YAML-Meta to 0.21:

    • Consistent abstract

    • INSTALL documentation update

    • Extended META test suite

    • Fixed license fields in META.json to be lists

    • Added WARNING notice

  • Updated perl-XML-LibXSLT to 1.94:

    • Add the ->max_vars function to set the MaxVars (CPAN RT#101413)

    • Fix breakage caused by the MaxVars change on older versions of libxslt (CPAN RT#101605)

  • Updated perl-YAML to 1.14 as per the Fedora version

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