Bug#592506: What to do about libtest-harness-perl?

[nicholas at periapt.co.uk]

Adam,
  The differences between 3.20 and 3.21 are minor - only the test scripts.

  The differences between 3.21 and 3.22 are more substantial. From  
what I can see however the area of the bug was being worked on almost  
right up until the release. In other words it looks to me as if the  
patch forms a large part of what happened between 3.21 and 3.22.

The Changes file: http://search.cpan.org/src/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.22/Changes
The diff:  
http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Test-Harness-3.21&to=Test-Harness-3.22&w=1  
(Note that almost every file contains the version number so every file  
is touched, but this does not mean anything.)
The upstream repository: http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/network

The bug concerns how the prove utility handles testing scripts  
directly. Anyway other members of the Debian Perl group will want to  
express an opinion.

Nicholas

Quoting "Adam D. Barratt" <adam at adam-barratt.org.uk>:

> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 13:16 +0100, nicholas at periapt.co.uk wrote:
>> We have a new upstream version of Test::Harness from CPAN. I have just
>> packaged this version and given that this fixes an issue currently in
>> test, we need to know whether this should be uploaded in time to get
>> into squeeze.
> [...]
>> As per bug #592506 there is a serious issue introduced since upstream 3.17.
>> There is theoretically a patch in the upstream repository.
>> We had 3.21-1 in our repository until today.
>> Upstream have issued a new release 3.22 that includes the patch.
>
> What does the diff between 3.20-1 and 3.22-1 look like?
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>
>
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