Re: Procedure for dealing with test/build failures?

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On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:24:21 -0600, Samuel Young wrote:

>I've been working on updating libmime-tools-perl to its new upstream
>version 5.516, but ran into issues due to test failures. Upon
>investigation, it seems the test failures are due to the upstream not
>including a required test file in the upstream distribution. I've
>opened an issue with the upstream bug tracker and mentioned the test
>failures under the PROBLEM section of d/changelog.

Sounds good!
(And, for those reading along at home, it worked: 5.517 has been 
released with a fix -- thanks for updating the package!)

>Is there a standard
>procedure for handling these kinds of issues that I've been
>neglecting, or is this the proper way to go about handling problems
>like these? Thank you.

I think this is the standard/proper way in this case.
Maybe together with mentioning the raised upstream in d/changelog 
(irrelevant in this case but for ongoing problems this might be 
helpful for others).

Thanks for all your work!


Cheers,
gregor

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