[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#458144: Bug#458144: libxml-parser-perl: depends/build depends loop makes building against, new perl versions impossible

[Ardo van Rangelrooij]

peter green wrote:
> Well I took another look at this bug and it looks like the build-dep 
> issue was introduced with the previous NMU so I went back to the 
> previous version but then ran into another problem with the testsuite 
> failing.
> 
> t/encoding........"my" variable $p masks earlier declaration in same 
> scope at t/encoding.t line 94.
> t/encoding........FAILED test 
> 3                                                     Failed 1/6 tests, 
> 83.33% okay
> 
> I disabled the testsuite and that version built.
> 
> I then used that version to satisfy the depencies of the latest version 
> but that then failed to build with
> 
> Not a HASH reference at /usr/bin/compile_encoding line 42.
> 
> repeated quite a number of times.

This has just been reported in 458578.

Thanks,
Ardo
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