Bug#982485: libdist-zilla-plugin-requiresexternal-perl: FTBFS: t/externaldeps.t failure

[Niko Tyni]

Control: reassign -1 libtest-output-perl 1.032-1
Control: affects -1 src:libdist-zilla-plugin-requiresexternal-perl
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 08:46:30PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Source: libdist-zilla-plugin-requiresexternal-perl
> Version: 1.009-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs
> 
> This package fails to build from source in current sid, and presumably
> on testing too.
> 
>   Test Summary Report
>   -------------------
>   t/externaldeps.t               (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
>     Non-zero exit status: 255
>  
> This is also visible on the autopkgtest check on ci.debian.net:
> 
>   https://ci.debian.net/packages/libd/libdist-zilla-plugin-requiresexternal-perl/testing/amd64/
> 
> It looks like this broke with libtest-output-perl 1.032-1: reverting to
> 1.031-1 locally makes it go away for me.

This seems to be an accidental regression in libtest-output-perl, where
upstream version 1.032 did not include the changes in 1.031, resulting in

 https://github.com/mjgardner/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-RequiresExternal/issues/7

resurfacing.

I'm reassigning to libtest-output-perl. Upstream has just released
1.033 which I expect fixes this.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org