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Id: 60963
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: Test-Harness
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Requestors: ANDK [...] cpan.org
Cc: ALEXBIO [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Unimportant
Broken in: 3.22
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Thu Sep 02 02:53:30 2010 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
CC: ALEXBIO [...] cpan.org
Subject: Subtle changes between 3.17 and 3.22 break testsuite of Acme-Compress-0.04
It started with that I observed weird results of the Acme::Compress testsuite among the cpantesters. With T:H 3.17 we have only PASS, with 3.21 and 3.22 we have mixed results. My observations on my own machine with 3.21+ are that when a working version of Acme::Compress is already installed, then testing it yields a PASS. So if you want to reproduce the interesting results make sure that Acme::Compress is not already installed on your testing perl. Bisect on the Test::Harness repository doesn't lead to a clear finding because there were so many different types of fail since 3.17 wrt Acme::Compress. Inspecting the code what Acme::Compress is doing is a bit annoying to debug because you only see encrypted source code and everything happens at compile time. That makes debugging not trivial. But my impression is that Acme::Compress isn't doing anything wrong. I would welcome more eyeballs looking into this. Thanks && Regards,
  Thu Sep 02 11:13:41 2010 ALEXBIO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I've just upgraded from Test-Harness 3.17 (bundled with perl-modules- 5.10 on Debian) which works fine with Acme-Compress, to 3.20 (libtest- harness-perl on Debian) which makes Acme-Compress test fail. When fails, Test-Harness reports that it can't find the Acme::Compree module: t/00-test.t .. Can't locate Acme/Compress.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at t/00-test.t line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/00-test.t line 1. This is why when Acme-Compress is already installed, it doesn't hang. The code of 00-test.t in Acme-Compress is very simple: use Acme::Compress; use Test::More tests => 1; use strict; ok(1 == 1); Which is then compressed by Acme::Compress and it seems to work fine: % perl -Mblib t/00-test.t 1..1 ok 1 I have also bisected Test-Harness and it seems that fd61f8056b4a334e802a8199be403153b2d237fc is the first bad commit commit fd61f8056b4a334e802a8199be403153b2d237fc Author: Steve Purkis <spurkis@caribou.local> Date: Mon Aug 31 14:18:10 2009 +0100 I tried to revert the commit but it failed, then I resetted to the commit before it and the Acme-Compress test worked, while resetting to the bad commit itself makes Acme-Compress test fail. I don't know very much Test::Harness, its code and how it works so I don't know if the problem with Acme-Compress is a real bug and how to patch it. I think I can't help further. Hope my work has been helpful. cheers
  Thu Sep 02 11:13:42 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Apr 16 07:58:19 2011 andy [...] hexten.net - Severity Normal changed to Unimportant