Bug#432484: libtest-www-mechanize-perl - FTBFS: 500 Can't connect to localhost:13432 (connect: Connection refused)

[Niko Tyni]

forwarded 432484 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=26602
tag 432484 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:20:07AM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote:
> Package: libtest-www-mechanize-perl
> Version: 1.12-2
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs
> 
> hi,
> 
> while doing an archive wide package rebuild your package failed to build from
> source for the following reason:
> 
>  > t/follow_link_ok........
>  > #   Failed test 'Go after first link'
>  > #   in t/follow_link_ok.t at line 29.
>  > # 500 Can't connect to localhost:13432 (connect: Connection refused)
>  > # Content-Type: text/plain
>  > # Client-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:40:03 GMT
>  > # Client-Warning: Internal response
>  > # 
>  > # 500 Can't connect to localhost:13432 (connect: Connection refused)

The problem is a __DIE__ signal triggering from an eval() block in
WWW::Mechanize and killing the test HTTP server. It surfaced with
libwww-mechanize-perl 1.30, which was uploaded recently.

There's a patch in rt.cpan.org #26602; the bug is fixed in upstream 1.14
which builds OK for me.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at iki.fi