Bug#507657: libipc-shareable-perl: Test suite fails with 5.10, module likely doesn't work with 5.10 at all

[Gunnar Wolf]

Frank Lichtenheld dijo [Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:33:09PM +0100]:
> Package: libipc-shareable-perl
> Version: 0.60-6
> Severity: grave
> Tags: patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> The module doesn't run its test suite during build, but it really should do so:
> ~/tmp/libipc-shareable-perl-0.60$ LANG=C make test
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 
> 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> t/00base......ok                                                             
> t/05sv........ok                                                             
> t/10av........ok 1/11Can't use string ("3") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" 
> in use at /home/frl/tmp/libipc-shareable-perl-0.60/blib/lib/IPC/Shareable.pm line 
> 455.

Grah, quite a strange ocurrence. And even worse, I didn't read far
enough to reach this:

> Patch from me in http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=41401

Yes, I got to an identical conclusion. Anyway, I'm including the test
suite (and your patch, of course) in the package build and uploading.

Greetings,

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