PaulHowarth/Blog/2025-08

Paul's Blog Entries for August 2025

Friday 1st August 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20250801.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2025-08-01

Monday 4th August 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated python-lexicon to 3.0.0 in Rawhide:

    • Dropped support for Python <3.9

    • Modernized project metadata re: Python interpreters, development

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Module-CoreList to 5.20250803:

    • Updated for v5.40.3
    • Updated for v5.38.5

Monday 11th August 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-IPC-Run to 20250809.0 in Rawhide:

    • Reduce delays in detecting child exit (GH#172)

    • Add quickstart section at the top of the docs (GH#174)

    • Retry _read() on EINTR instead of losing pipe contents (GH#177)

    • In test suite, work around bug in NetBSD 10
  • Updated perl-Specio to 0.52 in Rawhide:

    • Really made it possible to force Specio to use only pure Perl dependencies; the changes in 0.51 were incomplete, so lots of places still loaded the Clone (XS) module (GH#23)

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt dovecot (2.4.1) for libicu 77.1 in Rawhide

  • Updated perl-IPC-Run to 20250809.0 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Specio to 0.52 as per the Fedora version

Tuesday 12th August 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Devel-OverloadInfo to 0.008 in Rawhide:

    • Generate README.md in the repository

    • Move git repository to Codeberg

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Devel-OverloadInfo to 0.008 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Test-Script to 1.31:

    • Fix bug introduced in 1.30 where exports were not happening correctly in legacy mode (GH#47)

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