PaulHowarth/Blog/2025-05-04

Sunday 4th May 2025

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Devel-Cover to 1.47 in Rawhide:

    • Improve defined-or handling (GH#352)

    • Always set both HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES and PERL5OPT (GH#351)

    • Fix many spelling mistakes (GH#341)

    • Improve criteria handling in cover script (GH#347)

    • Fix uninitialized value warning in cover -write (GH#339)

  • Updated perl-PPI to 1.283 in Rawhide:

    • Allow zero byte documents to have a location
    • Handle simple lists in feature arg decomposing
    • Warn on unknown feature arg decompose instead of die

Local Packages

  • Updated perl-Perl-MinimumVersion to 1.44:

    • Remove detection for Perl versions older than 5.008, which means that 5.006 is now the minimum required version that will be reported (GH#7)

    • Fix formatting of the summary printed by the perlver script (GH#14)

    • Recognize the minimum required version for the tr///r flag (GH#25) and indented heredocs (GH#27)

    • Recognize the minimum required Perl versions for:

      • The "use re '/flags'" pragma (GH#29)

      • Postfix dereferences (GH#30)

      • The <<>> operator (GH#31)

    • Update LICENSE text

  • Updated perl-PPI to 1.283 as per the Fedara version

  • Updated perl-PPIx-Utils to 0.004:

    • Update LICENSE text

  • Updated perl-Software-License to 0.104007:

    • Update GPL v1 text to current version

    • CPAN::Meta v1 "gpl" license is explicitly GPL v2

    • Improve recognition for Apache 1.1 and 2.0+

  • Updated perl-Test-Harness to 3.52:

    • Support additional indicators on block scalars in YAML

    • Fix string comparisons with $] to use numeric comparison instead

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