Bug#592506: [v-admins] Bug#592506: What to do about libtest-harness-perl?

[Nicholas Bamber]

Okay a sleepless might so I have some conclusions.

First of all any patched version needs to be based off 3.21 not 3.20 
because the jump from 3.20 to 3.21 is really small and only affects test 
files.

I extracted patch files for the suggested git commits. The total line 
count is 492 though I am not quite sure what that tells you given the 
context lines and other overheads.

Now the very first patch (on t/testargs.t) gets rejected.

There is only one change to t/testargs.t between version 3.21 and our 
first patch. However that was part of a large merge on the 29th June of 
changes by Chris Williams affecting about 30 files.

In conclusion to proceed with a  patched 3.21 would require manual 
analysis and application of the 10 patches. The second one looks 
irrelevant to me.

Nicholas

Debian bug at v.nix.is wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 16:00, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
>   
>> I have no idea if this is enough or not; Nicholas and v.nix.is, what
>> do you think?
>>     
>
> I didn't track down what commits exactly were pertinent to fixing
> this, I just did a log from 3.21 to the master at the time and picked
> all the pertinent ones.
>
> The tests in the current master should test for the required behavior,
> you can also e.g. check out Git's own git.git, run make and do cd t &&
> prove t[0-9]*.sh to see if it works.
>
> I'm on vacation now but I'd be happy to test out any patched version
> around the end of the month to see if it fixes this issue.
>
> I didn't see anything major in 3.22 though that should hold back
> getting it into the next stable, and maintaining a 3.22 in Debian
> instead of a patched version would probably be less painful in the
> long run.
>   

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