Bug#710873: libapache2-mod-perl2: FTBFS with newer libhttp-message-perl: t/api/err_headers_out.t failures

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:31:10 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> Failed builds on mips, mipsel, s390, sparc:
> 
>   Test Summary Report
>   -------------------
>   t/api/err_headers_out.t               (Wstat: 0 Tests: 6 Failed: 3)
>     Failed tests:  2-3, 5

Ouch.

Also reproducible on amd64 (as expected, with the newer
libhttp-message-perl.
 
> Looking at the test code in that file:
> 
>     # HTTP::Headers 6.00 makes the next 2 tests fail. When the response comes
>     # in the header name is stored as "x-err_headers_out". But when it is to
>     # be read below it is referred as "x-err-headers-out" and hence not found.
>     local $HTTP::Headers::TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE=
>         $HTTP::Headers::TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE;
>     undef $HTTP::Headers::TRANSLATE_UNDERSCORE
>         if defined HTTP::Headers->VERSION and HTTP::Headers->VERSION==6.00;
> 
> libhttp-message-perl 6.03-1 has HTTP::Headers VERSION 6.00
> but the recently uploaded 6.06-1 has 6.05.
> 
> Changing that test to read 'HTTP::Headers->VERSION>=6.00' fixes
> the problem (although the equality comparison with a float makes me
> slightly nervous.) Note that there are two instances of this code block
> in the file.

I've committed a patch to git that uses version->parse().
Does this sound right?
 
> I haven't verified this, but I assume this also applies to 2.0.8 with
> Apache 2.2 and upstream should be informed. I couldn't find a CPAN
> RT ticket about this in the HTTP-Message queue.

Right, I guess there are some details by now that we should tell
upstream about :)

I'd prefer if someone who is already susbcribed to (mod-)perl-dev
could do this ...

Cheers,
gregor

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