PaulHowarth/Blog/2017-04-12

Wednesday 12th April 2017

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Contextual-Return to 0.004012 in F-26 and Rawhide:

    • Optimized previous patch for memory leak
    • Added missing test plan to t/fail.t (I reverted this change as the test proved to be quite flaky)

  • Updated perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) in F-26 and Rawhide to use gnupg2 rather than gnupg for the signature test

  • Updated perl-Test-NoTabs to 2.00 in F-26 and Rawhide:

    • Migrated off Module::Install, added META.json and other modern tooling

  • Updated perl-Test-Vars to 0.014 in F-26 and Rawhide:

    • Fixed a bug where false positives were reported for some code constructs where a variable was used on the right side of an lvalue-expression
  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.62 in F-26 and Rawhide:

    • Only check for missing Module::Install related modules in Makefile.PL

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Test-Assert (0.0504) to use gnupg2 rather than gnupg for the signature test, and to use an ephemeral temporary directory for GPG key storage

  • Updated perl-Test-NoTabs to 2.00 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Script to 1.18:

    • Handle scripts with -T taint mode (GH#13)

    • Use three-argument open

  • Updated perl-Test-Vars to 0.014 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Unicode-UTF8 to 0.62 as per the Fedora version


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