Bug #81519 for XML-Rabbit: Test failures due to hash randomisation in perl 5.17.6

Wed Nov 28 16:20:02 2012 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Test failures due to hash randomisation in perl 5.17.6

Since bleadperl v5.17.5-518-g7dc8663 your tests are failing frequently. That commit introduced hash key randomization and it seems at least the test t/10_parse_xhtml_file.t is hit by that. Find a sample fail report at: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/f6c9cd8e-315a-11e2-83e9- c0bfa290f8f5 You can read more about the commit at http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl .git/commit/7dc8663964c66a698d 31bbdc8e8abed69bddeec3 HTH&&Thanks&&Regards,

Fri Nov 30 15:03:42 2012 ROBINS [...] cpan.org - Taken

Fri Nov 30 15:07:46 2012 ROBINS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks a lot for the information. I'll see what I can do to get rid of those (which means I'll have to brew a new perl...). Could you tell me a bit more about what this hash randomization actually means for us "mortal" Perl programmers? The comments in the commit message was quite technical and somewhat beyond my level of understanding. Has someone written a FAQ entry somewhere about what might be the issue I'm facing with this new hash seed mechanism? -- Robin

Fri Nov 30 15:07:47 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Nov 30 15:16:23 2012 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Yes, I have discovered, just an hour ago, http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1005122. I've added it to the template I'm using in these bugreports.

Sun Dec 02 11:50:08 2012 ROBINS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added 360 min

I have just released version 0.2.1 to PAUSE which should fix the hash seed randomization problems with 5.17.6. The actual problem was present in Data::Visitor::Callback, so I posted a failing test case to it as well. You can find it at: https://github.com/nothingmuch/data-visitor/pull/2 -- Robin

Sun Dec 02 11:50:09 2012 ROBINS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'