Re: failure 97729340 on PDF::Builder 3.010

[email protected] (Doug Bell) Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:00:20 -0500
Newsgroups	perl.cpan.testers.discuss
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
This is Gregor's Raspberry Pi, so it's possible the SD card is starting to throw some errors. Generally, though, the people on this list aren't watching the test report feed to see if they can install modules: There are too many test reports for anyone to look at every single report.

A fail report on CPAN Testers can mean a bunch of different things:

1. The distribution has a bug (code bug, missing prereqs, porting issue). You've ruled this out and I agree.
2. Perl 5 has a bug. This is the goal of the Blead Perl Breaks CPAN project. They run development releases of Perl 5 against CPAN to see if something breaks. Since Gregor is running 5.28.0, that's not what is happening here
3. The tester is misconfigured. Sometimes a tester will run tests for a distribution whose dependencies aren't installed, or it loses connectivity to the Internet or something. Those errors are pretty easy to see: Loading a module fails, DNS fails, connect fails, etc...
4. The tester's hardware is broken. This will likely result in very strange errors, like the one you encountered.

The usual thing to do in cases 3-4 is to talk to the tester via e-mail. They probably would want to know about the problem. There is a site to help talk to testers and also mark the reports as "invalid", https://admin.cpantesters.org <https://admin.cpantesters.org/>, but I believe that it's no longer working (and I'd be happy for any volunteers to help either get the site working again or to build a replacement).

Doug Bell
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> On Aug 21, 2018, at 8:54 AM, Phil M Perry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> One t-test has failed on PDF::Builder 3.010 (uploaded last night), as reported by gregor herrmann (ID 97729340). Looking at the message, the claimed error suggests that the file t/gd.t was corrupted during processing. The line
> 
>     $gfx->image($img, 72, 144, 216, 288);
> 
> apparently became
> 
>     $gfx->image(%Imgl 72, 144, 216,\x12 288);
> 
> As no one else is reporting this problem, I believe that the package itself is OK and the corruption occurred during the testing. Please rerun the install and test.
> 
> regards, Phil Perry
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