Paul's Blog Entries for August 2023

Tuesday 1st August 2023

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-DateTime-Format-MySQL to 0.08 in Rawhide:

  • Fix parsing microsecond < 100,000 off DateTime object by zero-padding

Local Packages

• Updated perl-DateTime-Format-MySQL to 0.08 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 2nd August 2023

Local Packages

• Updated unrar to 6.23

Thursday 3rd August 2023

Fedora Project

• Rebuilt perl-Net-SSLeay (1.92) for OpenSSL 3.1.1 in Rawhide

Local Packages

• Rebuilt perl-Compress-Raw-Lzma (2.206) for xz 5.4.4 in Rawhide

• Rebuilt perl-Net-SSLeay (1.92) as per the Fedora version

Friday 4th August 2023

Local Packages

• Updated perl-DateTime-Format-MySQL (0.08) not to use the %rpmversion macro, which is a new built-in since rpm-4.18.92

Tuesday 8th August 2023

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Net-SSH-Perl to 2.142 in Rawhide:

  • Yank out the SIGNATURES stuff; this is something you can do locally if you need that (GH#63)

  • Update the license files to match those in Perl (GH#67)

• Updated perl-Test-File (1.993) in Rawhide to fix FTBFS due to %rpmversion macro becoming an rpm built-in (Bug #2229872)

• Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.51 in Rawhide:

  • Contact e-mail update

  • Attribute skip_empty_rows extended

  • Fix comments (GH#45)

  • Fix help (GH#46)

  • Update to Devel::PPPort-3.71

  • Fix HTML on Windows

  • Fix double header-interpretation on bom + headers => "auto" (GH#47)

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Test-File (1.993) as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-Harness to 3.46:

  • Colour the "ok"s as well
  • Skip symlink tests on msys2
  • Use absolute path for executable tests
  • Space-quote executable if it has spaces

  • Avoid using Errno::EINTR directly for platforms without it

  • Stop calling import on App::Prove plugins

• Updated perl-Text-CSV_XS to 1.51 as per the Fedora version

Wednesday 9th August 2023

Local Packages

• Updated perl-common-sense (3.75) to fix FTBFS due to %rpmversion macro being built-in in rpm-4.18.92

Thursday 10th August 2023

Local Packages

• Branched the development repository for Fedora 39

• Updated curl (8.2.1) to enable websockets from Fedora 40 onwards (Bug #2224651)

Friday 11th August 2023

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20230811.001 in F-39 and Rawhide:

  • Data update for 2023-08-11

Sunday 13th August 2023

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Finance-Quote to 1.58 in F-37, F-38, F-39 and Rawhide:

  • New module Consorsbank.pm (GH#329)

  • New module Stooq.pm (GH#203)

  • Bloomberg.pm - Changed modules to utilize cookie jar (GH#324, GH#331)

    • AlphaVantage.pm:

      • Apply currency scaling (GBp ⇒ GBP) when symbol had additional ".X" suffix (GH#281)

      • Fixed check for "Information" JSON usually returned when daily API limit has been reached

  • YahooWeb.pm - Fixed incorrect pricing for single character symbols and changed URL to get trade date (GH#314, GH#319)

  • Another fix to the URL in YahooJSON and CurrencyRates/YahooJSON (GH#318)

Monday 14th August 2023

Fedora Project

• Updated gtkwave to 3.3.117 in F-39 and Rawhide:

  • Fix stems reader processing code broken in 3.3.114

Local Packages

• Updated gtkwave to 3.3.117 as per the Fedora version

• Updated perl-Test-Harness to 3.47:

  • Add missing negation in EINTR check

  • Fix HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-I handling in TAP::Harness::Env

Wednesday 16th August 2023

Local Packages

• Updated glib (1.2.10) to set build_type_safety_c to 0 (Bug #2167383)

Monday 21st August 2023

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20230820:

  • Updated for v5.39.2

Tuesday 22nd August 2023

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20230822.001 in F-39 and Rawhide:

  • Data update for 2023-08-22

Local Packages

• Updated libxml2 to 2.11.5 (see NEWS for details)

Saturday 26th August 2023

Fedora Project

• Updated perl-Pod-Coverage-Moose to 0.08 in F-39 and Rawhide:

  • Fix "Attempt to call undefined import method with arguments" error on perl 5.39.1

Local Packages

• Updated perl-Pod-Coverage-Moose to 0.08 as per the Fedora version