Bug#795206: FTBFS: test failures (with libdate-manip-perl)

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 08:39:24PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Source: libgedcom-perl
> Version: 1.19-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: fails to build from source
> Forwarded: https://github.com/pjcj/Gedcom.pm/issues/5

> As discovered by the reproducible build team and already noted in the
> upstream bug tracker (and confirmed locally with and without
> libdate-manip-perl installed), this package fails its tests if
> libdate-manip-perl is installed:

This goes away if the test suite is run with DATE_MANIP=DM5 in the
environment. I see this enables an older Date::Manip interface
that is no longer maintained, 

All the failures I'm seeing are of the type

  t/basic.t .............. 9/1501 # Test 1464 got: "2     DATE Monday, 17th August 2015\n" (t/Basic.pm at line 32 fail #1464)
  #      Expected: "2     DATE AFT    1989\n"
  #  t/Basic.pm line 32 is:     &Test::ok(@a)
  t/basic.t .............. Failed 1/1501 subtests 
 
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