Bug#448887: FTFBS: tests very sensitive to packages on the system

Damyan Ivanov dam at modsoftsys.com
Wed Nov 14 10:53:55 UTC 2007


[Dropping CCc as all relevant parties should be subscribed to the
pkg-perl-maintainers list anyway]

-=| gregor herrmann, Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:31:53AM +0100 |=-
> I've forwarded this observation and the patch to the upstream author,
> and he has already replied:
> 
> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30695
> 
> I'd like to have some ideas from the Debian Perl Group on how to
> handle this issue.

I'd say, listen to the author's opinion.

That is, drop both patches. Reopen #165940 and tag it wontfix with a
pointer to RT#30695.

Perhaps we can point to File::TypeInfo in the long description even if
there's no package for it. If someone needs it packaged, we're here :)
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