Bug#800424: libdevel-cover-perl: FTBFS on i386 (Linux + Hurd, not kFreeBSD)

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Niko,

Niko Tyni wrote:
> The alternative is to remove it from testing.

Indeed.

> The changes between 1.20 and 1.21 are minimal, those can't be the
> reason for the failure. Probably either changes in perl or libc
> broke it.
> 
> I expect 1.20 fails in the same way at least on sid, and probably
> in testing too.

I see.

> I've made some progress on it fwiw, and it seems to be something with
> two print statements in different modules getting the same opcode address
> on the perl side, therefore hashing down to a same hash key and getting
> counted as one. Will update the upstream bug when I've got.to the bottom
> of it.

Yay, thanks! (I'm subscribed to the upstream bug, btw.)

		Regards, Axel
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