Bug#827033: libio-pty-easy-perl: FTBFS in jessie: t/read-write.t

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: retitle -1 libio-pty-easy-perl: sometimes FTBFS in jessie: t/read-write.t

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 03:03:28PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Control: fixed -1 0.09-2
> Control: forwarded -1 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=95702
> 
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 12:34:12 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > Source: libio-pty-easy-perl
> > Version: 0.09-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: FTBFS
> > 
> > Since the update to perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u5, this package FTBFS in stable:
> > 
> > #   Failed test 'write returns undef on timeout'
> > #   at t/read-write.t line 18.
> > #          got: '11'
> > #     expected: undef
> > # Looks like you failed 1 test of 5.
> > t/read-write.t ............ 
> > Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
> > Failed 1/5 subtests 
> > 
> > The full build log can be found at
> > 
> > http://perl.debian.net/rebuild-logs/jessie/libio-pty-easy-perl_0.09-1/libio-pty-easy-perl_0.09-1_amd64-20160611-0002.build
> 
> This looks like #806534 which was fixed (or "fixed") in 0.09-2.
> 
> (Looks like there's a new patch on CPAN RT.)

In particular, it's a non-deterministic test which just happened to
fail in the test environment I first tried on. Downgrading accordingly.

Dominic.