PaulHowarth/Blog/2018-01-22

Monday 22nd January 2018

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Devel-OverloadInfo to 0.005 in Rawhide:

    • Add overload_op_info() function for info about a single op

  • Updated perl-Getopt-Long-Descriptive to 0.101 in Rawhide:

    • Escape some unescaped braces in regex
  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.054 in Rawhide:

    • Small behavior fixes
      • If SSL_fingerprint is used and matches, don't check for OCSP

      • Utils::CERT_create: Small fixes to properly specific purpose, ability to use predefined complex purpose but disable some features

    • Update PublicSuffix

    • Updates for documentation, especially regarding pitfalls with forking or using non-blocking sockets, spelling fixes
    • Test fixes and improvements
      • Stability improvements for live tests
      • Regenerate certificates in certs/ and make sure they are limited to the correct purpose; check in program used to generate certificates

      • Adjust tests since certificates have changed and some tests used certificates intended for client authentication as server certificates, which now no longer works
  • Updated proftpd (1.3.6) in Rawhide to work around an FTBFS due to a linker options change aimed at detecting undefined symbols

Local Packages

  • Updated getmail (5.5) to be more specific about use of Python 2

  • Updated perl-DateTime-TimeZone to 2.16:

    • This release is based on version 2018b of the Olson database
    • Contemporary changes for São Tomé and Príncipe, Brazil, and Ireland
    • The 2018a was skipped because it was missing a file, but there are no data changes from 2018a to 2018b
  • Updated perl-Devel-OverloadInfo to 0.005 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-IO-Socket-SSL to 2.054 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20180120:

    • Updated for v5.27.8


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