PaulHowarth/Blog/2018-04-23

Monday 23rd April 2018

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-autobox to 2.86 in Rawhide:

    • Fix bug that prevented autoboxing working under the debugger on perl 5.22+ (GH#9); added t/debugger.t

    • Fix bug that prevented bareword method-calls being exempted when the method is a variable e.g. Foo->$bar (GH#8)

    • Add operator-overloading note to the gotchas section (GH#7)

    • License changed to Artistic 2.0
  • Updated perl-Digest-SHA to 6.02 in Rawhide:

    • Silenced compiler warnings from VS2017 (CPAN RT#124477)

    • Modified addfile to return error when given a directory name, which makes behaviour consistent with GNU coreutils shaXsum

  • Updated perl-URI to 1.74 in Rawhide:

    • Avoid 'uninitialized' warning in URI::File when host has no domain name set (PR#53)

Local Packages

  • Updated nmap (7.70) not to build zenmap and ndiff from Fedora 29 onwards because of Python 2 deprecation

  • Updated perl-Capture-Tiny to 0.48:

    • Appends PID to random file names for tee signalling to avoid random name collision when used in multiple forked children
  • Updated perl-Digest-SHA to 6.02 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-File-ShareDir-Install to 0.13:

    • Reinstate testrules.yml file to force serialized testing

  • Updated perl-MetaCPAN-Client to 2.025000:

    • Fix warning on a JSON::PP::Boolean check

    • Added support for the new 'cover' index - cpancover.org info
  • Updated perl-Module-CPANfile to 1.003:

    • Make options written back with save()

    • Documented options_for_module method

    • Internal refactoring
  • Updated perl-strictures to 2.000005:

    • Update internal list of warnings for categories added in 5.28.0 (no behaviour change)


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