Bug#922933: librdf-aref-perl: Failures due to changing prefix

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

Package: librdf-aref-perl
Version: 0.27-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

I figured you might use an explanation of the recent breakage of this
package. First of all, it has been reported upstream, but there has
been no action:
https://github.com/nichtich/RDF-aREF/issues/21

The root cause is that librdf-ns-perl is based on a crowd-sourced
database, and sometimes crowd-sourced things change. The occasional breakage is 
usually a small price to pay for access to the large, crowdsourced
database, but for a stable environment, like Debian, it can cause some headaches.

The breakage seen in this package is directly due to that a prefix has
changed in the crowdsourced database, and only upstream can really fix
that. Changing the test should be upstream's call, as it may alter the
meaning of the code. Probably the best solution that you can do is
fixate the tests on a database from the past.

Kjetil


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (501, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages librdf-aref-perl depends on:
ii  librdf-ns-perl  20170111-1
ii  perl            5.24.1-3+deb9u4

librdf-aref-perl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages librdf-aref-perl suggests:
pn  libunicode-normalize-perl  <none>