[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#974168: bioperl-run: autopkgtest failure

[tony mancill]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:37:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Source: bioperl-run
> Version: 1.7.3-4
> Severity: serious
> 
> https://ci.debian.net/packages/b/bioperl-run/
> 
> ...
>     # Can't locate File/Sort.pm in @INC (you may need to install the File::Sort module) (@INC contains: ../../.. /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.3 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/share/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/share/perl5/Bio/Tools/Run/BEDTools.pm line 197.
>     # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Bio/Tools/Run/BEDTools.pm line 197.
>     not ok 31 - /usr/bin/perl -wc /usr/share/perl5/Bio/Tools/Run/BEDTools.pm exited successfully
> ...
> 
> 
> libfile-sort-perl is now in unstable, but after adding it to
> dependencies and build dependencies the package build fails
> with other test failures.

I am not able to reproduce this in a clean sid chroot.  Is it possible
that the failure was related to the recent Perl transition?

Cheers,
tony