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