Bug#912521: perl: 5.28 FTBFS on kfreebsd: test failures

Laurent Bigonville <[email protected]> Tue, 5 May 2020 11:21:15 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general,gmane.linux.debian.ports.bsd
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:43:22 +0200 Niko Tyni <[email protected]> wrote:
 > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 03:50:46PM +0000, James Clarke wrote:
 >
 > > I did this two weeks ago, but it turns out one of the failures 
(run/switches.t)
 > > is important, as it reveals that `perl -pi -e ... /tmp/foo` is 
broken, which in
 > > turn causes r-base-core's postinst to fail. I've tracked this down 
and sent a
 > > patch upstream[1]; could you please apply this to the packaging?
 >
 > Thanks! Applied in 5.28.0-4 (just uploaded.)

FTR as of today (perl version 5.30.0-10), there are still two tests failing:

Failed 2 tests out of 2538, 99.92% okay.
     ../dist/Time-HiRes/t/utime.t
     ../lib/File/Copy.t