[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#954371: Bug#954371: libio-socket-ssl-perl: FTBFS since openssl 1.1.1e

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:48:26PM +0200, Steffen Ullrich wrote:
> > You should fix your tests not to trigger an unexpected EOF. You
> > probably have code now that ignores the current error, you
> > shouldn't ignore that error, it's a real error.
> 
> Fixing the tests to only consider an ideal world of nicely behaving peers is
> in my opinion the wrong way to go.  Instead I think that it is very useful
> to have tests which include bad behaved peers since such peers are
> unfortunately a reality. And it would be good if IO::Socket::SSL would
> provide a defined and stable behavior in such situations and that the tests
> check this. As for how this behavior should exactly look like I'm not fully
> sure yet and I have to figure this out before OpenSSL 3.0.0 gets released.

I do agree that testing for errors is important. I assumed that some
tests failed because they ignored the error, but I guess they can
also fail because they a different error than the one they expected.


Kurt