Worthless updates

[Ralf Corsepius]

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