Bug#1016761: libhttp-daemon-perl: FTBFS with newer HTTP::Tiny versions

[Niko Tyni]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon/issues/57

On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 11:17:13PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
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> On Sat, 6 Aug 2022, gregor herrmann wrote:
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> > On Sat, 06 Aug 2022 21:24:08 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > 
> > > It looks like the recent security fix in libhttp-daemon-perl_6.14-1.1
> > > (or at least the associated test case) has issues with newer versions
> > > of the HTTP::Tiny module.
> > […]
> > > From my build log:
> > >    Subroutine HTTP::Tiny::Handle::write_content_body redefined at t/content_length.t line 277.
> 
> Oh, that is bad, shall these new tests better be disabled than?

The upstream bug at https://github.com/libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon/issues/57
is unfortunately quiet. 

FWIW https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/181632 looks like at least
NixOS just dropped the test.

Guess we should do the same for now but I didn't really look into the
actual issue.
-- 
Niko