PaulHowarth/Blog/2017-08-22

Tuesday 22nd August 2017

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-DateTime to 1.44 in F-27 and Rawhide:

  • Added a stringify() method, which does exactly the same thing as stringification overloading does (GH#58)

  • Added an is_last_day_of_month() method to indicate whether or not an object falls on the last day of its month (GH#60)

• Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.423 in F-27 and Rawhide:

  • Sync version with List::MoreUtils::XS

  • Add some new functions: qsort (XS only), binsert, bremove, listcmp, arrayify (CPAN RT#17230), samples (CPAN RT#77562), minmaxstr (CPAN RT#106401), lower_bound, upper_bound, equal_range, frequencies, occurrences, mode (CPAN RT#91991), zip6 (CPAN RT#42921), reduce_0, reduce_1, reduce_u

  • Add examples for binsert/bremove (LMU::XS GH#1)

  • Improve tests

  • Make List::MoreUtils::XS independent from List::MoreUtils

  • Improve Makefile.PL regarding some build artifacts

  • Update tests to latest List::MoreUtils::XS

  • Recommend List::MoreUtils::XS 0.423

Local Packages

• Updated libxml2 (2.9.4) to rename the libxml2-python package to python2-libxml2 (see FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3)

• Updated perl-DateTime to 1.44 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-List-MoreUtils to 0.423 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20170821:

  • Updated for v5.27.3

• Updated sendmail (8.15.2) to replace compile-fix patch by format-security patch from Debian, so as not to change status codes (Bug #1482808)