Bug#1024179: zlib breaks libcompress-raw-zlib-perl autopkgtest: 02zlib.t fails

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 10:44:33PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:56:31 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > From the log:
> > 
> >    not ok 2 - ZLIB_VERSION (1.2.11) matches Compress::Raw::Zlib::zlib_version
> >    #     Failed test (t/compress/CompTestUtils.pm at line 61)
> >    #          got: '1.2.11'
> >    #     expected: '1.2.13'
> >    # 
> >    # The version of zlib.h does not match the version of libz
> >    # 
> >    # You have zlib.h version 1.2.11
> >    #      and libz   version 1.2.13
> >    # 
> >    # You probably have two versions of zlib installed on your system.
> >    # Try removing the one you don't want to use and rebuild.
> 
> Hu?

Uh, I was debugging this manually with 'perl t/02zlib.t'
and must have mixed up the logs. Sorry!

> Some quick thoughts:
> - we could play with zlib_version vs. ZLIB_VERSION (1.2.13 vs.
>   1.2.11, according to t/000prereq.t) in t/02zlib.t

Yeah I guess that's the way to go if we want to allow the version skew.
I think I have a slight preference for this over the rebuild solution.

> Assuming this is not a recurring pattern, a one-time binNMU might be
> not so bad …

If this is for safety rather than just fixing the failing test, we'd
want to do that for src:perl as well.
-- 
Niko