Re: A couple of patches from Debian

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:

> As part of this work we are applying a couple of small patches to the Moose
> package which I think may be of some interest to you (I've attached them
> to this mail, since I don't have commit rights for the Moose git
> repository).

FWIW, we give out commit bits very freely, and we'd be happy to give you 
one. The best place to discuss this in in the #moose channel on 
irc.perl.org.

> * Work around a numification problem on ia64
>
> This basically fixes a test failure on the ia64 (Itanium) architecture.
> This has been already reported as RT#59478 [1] and perl #77456 [2], and
> seems to be already fixed in perl itself (commit a42d02426c, from v5.13.8).

I think doy wanted to come up with a less hacky fix for this. I don't know 
where he is on this.

> * Fix small POD errors
>
> This just fixes a couple of POD errors found by pod2man.
>
> Both the patches are quite trivial (1-2 lines changed), apply to the
> 'master' branch (as per Moose::Manual::Contributing for small fixes) and
> are generated using git-format-patch, so that they can be easily merged
> using git-am.

This has been applied.


Thanks,

-dave

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