PaulHowarth/Blog/2022-01-07

Friday 7th January 2022

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Apache-Session (1.94) in Rawhide not to pull in modules from mod_perl as it (mod_perl) will not work with the default httpd setup in recent Fedora/EL releases and will not be available in EL-9 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030601#c2)

  • Branched and built perl-Apache-Session (1.94) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Apache-Session-Browseable (1.3.9) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Module-Manifest (1.09) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Test-DistManifest (1.014) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Test-HasVersion (0.014) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Test-MinimumVersion (0.101082) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Test-Modern (0.013) (no update yet, will include in update for dependent package perl-Mouse)

  • Branched and built perl-Test-NoTabs (2.02) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Test-Vars (0.015) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Test-Version (2.09) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built perl-Unicode-CheckUTF8 (1.03) for EPEL-9

  • Branched and built rgb (1.0.6) for EPEL-9

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.44:

    • Make generated code avoid warnings about the "items" variable being unused

    • Avoid some unused-variable warnings generated by XS code in the test suite
    • Update documentation to avoid newGVgen

    • Correct name of variable 'ALIAS' (not 'Alias') in documentation

    • Add PERL_REENTRANT for XS modules (get the reentrant versions of libc functions automatically without declaring as PERL_CORE or PERL_EXT)

    • Correctly check VERSIONs (Perl RT#132935)

    • Don't include OUTLIST parameters in the prototype (Perl RT#133654)

    • Use absolute paths in tests on all platforms
    • Use PERL_VERSION compare macro

    • Restore compatibility with old versions that made use of "errors" function, which was renamed to "report_error_count"

    • Use PERL_VERSION_LE instead of 5.33+ PERL_VERSION_LT

    • Fix error message bug
    • Always XSprePUSH when producing an output list (GH#19054)

    • Use more descriptive variable names
    • Fix plan/skip in test file 002-more.t


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