PaulHowarth/Blog/2026-07-27

Monday 27th July 2026

Fedora Project

  • Updated perl-Business-ISBN-Data to 20260724.001 in Rawhide:

    • Data update for 2026-07-24
  • Updated perl-Module-Pluggable to 6.4 in Rawhide:

    • Add a CI/CD pipeline for the first time in 26 years
    • Add the ability to make search search "strict" and only walk the given search_dirs

    • Add much more documentation to Module::Pluggable::Object

    • Make it so that you can give each search_path its own custom options

    • Finally fix spurious test failure because of already installed modules
    • Remove optional_features from Makefile.PL META_MERGE that sometimes caused installation confusion

    • Add the ability to have different sorting algorithms
    • Fix the issues with OSX extended-attributes on files
    • Clean up old stale core-lib

Local Packages

  • Rebuilt all perl-based packages for Perl 5.44 in Rawhide
  • Rebuilt bluefish (2.4.2), libxml2 (2.13.9) and libxslt (1.1.43) for the Python 3.15.0b4 ABI change in Rawhide

  • Updated dovecot (2.4.4) to obsolete dovecot-fts-xapian (PR#9) in F-45 and later builds as it is no longer maintained; included fts flatcurve is a possible replacement

  • Updated perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS to 3.64:

    • Respect output arguments in INTERFACES

    • PERL_UNUSED_VAR() the CV declared when an ALIAS or XSINTERFACE_FUNC_SET has been seen

  • Updated perl-Module-Pluggable to 6.4 as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Symbol-Util (0.0203) to run the pod spelling release test with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 to address dictionary issues

  • Updated perl-YAML to 1.321:

    • Going back to decimal version numbering to make existing comparisons like 'if $YAML::VERSION >= 1.15' work (GH#233)


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