Bug#917592: libterm-termkey-perl: FTBFS (failing tests)

[James McCoy]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 09:30:34PM -0500, James McCoy wrote:
> Dropping debhelper and related bug, since this is just about libtermkey.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 08:22:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Anyhow, on to the details I have found:
> > 
> >  * Only test case 05flags.t fails and only if stdin is a *readable*
> >    non-tty (e.g. /dev/null, an empty file or a non-empty file)
> > 
> >  […]
> > 
> >  * If the TERM is set to "dump", the test hangs.
> 
> Both of these issues have come up before in #809162.

Sorry, that should be #809192.

> At the time, I
> sent a patch to libtermkey's upstream to avoid the crash and then forgot
> to follow up on it.
> 
> I've sent a prod and will try to keep on top of it better this time. :)

He's looking into both issues (libtermkey NULL pointer crash and
libterm-termkey-perl's 05flags.t hang) now.  They're primarily test
issues, since it should be expected that normal use of these libraries
would have a valid TERM in the environment.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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