Bug#592506: What to do about libtest-harness-perl?

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:03:02 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> > >> The bug concerns how the prove utility handles testing scripts
> > >> directly. Anyway other members of the Debian Perl group will want to
> > >> express an opinion.
> > > Did any of them do so and simply fail to Cc -release? :-)
> > The group definitely knows about the issue. What other information  
> > apart from opinions would be of use?
> I only mentioned it because you said they would want to express their
> opinion. ;-)

:)
 
I looked into this issue now. Disclaimer/summary: I'm confused :)

The options seem to be to take either the new 3.22 release or create
a huge patch by taking several commits (mentioned in the first mail to
this bug). Looks both not really attractive.

Looking at the diff at
http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Test-Harness-3.21&to=Test-Harness-3.22&w=1
doesn't also really help due to it's size.

More interesting is a look at the two original upstream reports:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=59186
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=59457

Both tickets mention a fix in one commit:
* 59186 -> http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/80cf0384667d8bc7e95c2b0565827292aacab139
  (and for the test: probably
  http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/a794796d6780f4438bb492bf87ed14982a5357dd and
  http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/3a934f897b6a9d1d91afbeca21616e4c729f344f and
  http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/6ca9bf39fed165755033e824b895edea1cac21a7 )
* 59457 -> http://github.com/AndyA/Test-Harness/commit/6703fdc01e152df672047400364b227a172449e2

I have no idea if this is enough or not; Nicholas and v.nix.is, what
do you think?


Cheers,
gregor, who hopes that someone else would also take a look into this
        issue

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