On 03/03/2010 02:29 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: > It took me all of about 2 minutes to find a worthless pending update for > Fedora 11. Hip shot ;) > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/perl-Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.78-1.fc11 > > No data in the bodhi ticket. > > Rpm changelog says "Upstream update" > > If I google for upstream and look for a changelog, I come to this: > > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/DRTECH/Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.79/Changes > > in which the grand total of changes between what shipped with F11, and > what is in this update is: > > * Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Tie > - Removed a deprecated use of "defined %" for Perl 5.11+ > > * Locale::Maketext::Lexicon > - Removed a deprecated use of "defined %" for Perl 5.11+ > > Ok... removing deprecated uses is a questionable at best update, but > here is the kicker. The perl in F11 is perl-5.10.0-82.fc11. So these > functions aren't actually deprecated in F11. So... why is this update > going out? What possible benefit does the user get from this? Keeping the rpms in sync with CPAN. > Does > anybody see this as a reasonable update to publish on F11? If you'd use perl you'd know. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
