Bug#917656: libnet-server-mail-perl: FTBFS (failing tests)

[Xavier]

Le 02/01/2019 à 00:01, Dominic Hargreaves a écrit :
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 10:43:20PM +0100, Xavier wrote:
>> Control: reassign -1 perl-modules-5.28
>> Control: severity -1 normal
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> it seems that Net::SMTP->new() fails randomly when launched during
>> Net::server::Mail tests: $s is sometimes undefined after this:
>>
>>   my $s = Net::SMTP->new( $host, Port => $port, Hello => 'localhost' );
> 
> What does $@ contain when this happens?
> 
> I couldn't reproduce this myself using the attached, could you look
> at providing a reproducible test case?
> 
>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Net-Server-Mail+0.26 also shows that
>> this rarely happens since the release of 5.28.0 (1/22), never before.
>>
>> I added a workaround for now in libnet-server-mail-perl tests (warn and
>> return when $s is undefined).
> 
> (You probably want to log $@ in this case, too).
> 
> Cheers,
> Dominic.

Sadly I never succeed to reproduce this bug. I've only the FTBFS report
and one on CPAN:
 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917656
 *
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/19a89a8e-e1ee-11e8-afbf-aec3b07506ca

I'm going to upload a new patch with more logs