[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#842794: autopkgtests fail (since perl 5.24?): Failed test 'Testing vcf-fix-ploidy .. cat ...

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:10:43 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > What did happen around the time was the removal of '.' from @INC.
> That's indeed what caused the regression.
[..]
> > The test call can be shortened to:
> > # vcf-fix-ploidy -s fix-ploidy.samples < fix-ploidy.vcf | grep 61098
> You missed the '-p' parameter above, which makes all the difference.
> It's loading Perl code from the specified file with 'do', which no longer
> looks in cwd. The load fails silently and the program continues on with
> wrong results.

*sigh*

I did see the "do $file", and I tried with and without -p ... and
then must have had a "knot in my brain". Sorry & thanks!


Cheers,
gregor

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