Bug#536634: libnet-imap-simple-perl: Upstream package tests are skipped

[Jonathan Yu]

Package: libnet-imap-simple-perl
Severity: wishlist


During build of the source package, upstream package tests are being skipped:

    Coro::EV not found, skipping all meaningful tests
    t/07_select_and_examine..............ok
            23/23 skipped: various reasons

This means that core functionality is essentially untested. For our users,
this is a bad thing, because we have some outstanding bug reports on this
package, but no way of knowing whether it is something wrong during our build
causing test failures. Worse, it could be an upstream bug (but we can't tell)
if all tests pass but we're still having the problem.

I'm filing this to remind the pkg-perl team and notify everyone else that this
package is not tested properly unless a local installation of Coro (ITP filed)
and EV (ITP outstanding) are done. Proper automated testing can only be done
when EV is packaged for Debian proper, but libev-perl is a contentious package
because it includes a modified copy of libev which is binary incompatible with
the version we have in Debian...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash