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

[Nicholas Bamber]

I am digging deeper but apart from confirming that the issues are real 
and fixed by 3.22 I have not got anything yet. I am trying to build what 
a patched 3.21 would be and get a more informed opinion but the required 
patch does look big to me. 


gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:03:02 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>
>   
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>           
>>>> Did any of them do so and simply fail to Cc -release? :-)
>>>>         
>>> The group definitely knows about the issue. What other information  
>>> apart from opinions would be of use?
>>>       
>> I only mentioned it because you said they would want to express their
>> opinion. ;-)
>>     
>
> :)
>  
> I looked into this issue now. Disclaimer/summary: I'm confused :)
>
> The options seem to be to take either the new 3.22 release or create
> a huge patch by taking several commits (mentioned in the first mail to
> this bug). Looks both not really attractive.
>
> Looking at the diff at
> http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Test-Harness-3.21&to=Test-Harness-3.22&w=1
> doesn't also really help due to it's size.
>
> More interesting is a look at the two original upstream reports:
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=59186
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=59457
>
> Both tickets mention a fix in one commit:
> * 59186 -> http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/80cf0384667d8bc7e95c2b0565827292aacab139
>   (and for the test: probably
>   http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/a794796d6780f4438bb492bf87ed14982a5357dd and
>   http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/3a934f897b6a9d1d91afbeca21616e4c729f344f and
>   http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/6ca9bf39fed165755033e824b895edea1cac21a7 )
> * 59457 -> http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/6703fdc01e152df672047400364b227a172449e2
>
> I have no idea if this is enough or not; Nicholas and v.nix.is, what
> do you think?
>
>
> Cheers,
> gregor, who hopes that someone else would also take a look into this
>         issue
>
>   

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