Package: perl Version: 5.12.3-6 Severity: important Summary: oversensitive test case, should be fixed but works everywhere else including polpora and poulenc.
Dear powerpc buildd maintainers: could you please schedule a retry on another buildd for the time being and/or fix the passwd database on voltaire? On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:45:10AM +0000, Debian buildds wrote: > * Source package: perl > * Version: 5.12.3-6 > * Architecture: powerpc > * State: failed > * Suite: sid > * Builder: voltaire.debian.org > * Build log: > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=perl&arch=powerpc&ver=5.12.3-6&stamp=1304300272&file=log The failure is # Failed test at t/tilde.t line 53. # got: '' # expected: undef Use of uninitialized value $home in concatenation (.) or string at t/tilde.t line 55. cpan/Module-Build/t/tilde......................................FAILED at test 1 The relevant code is unless (defined $home) { my @info = eval { getpwuid $> }; skip "No home directory for tilde-expansion tests", 15 if $@; $home = $info[7]; } which ends up with $home == undef but doesn't skip the tests. It looks like this happens (at least) if the current user doesn't have a passwd entry at all. % perl -wE 'eval { @i=getpwuid 40000}; die $@ if $@; say $i[7]' Use of uninitialized value in say at -e line 1. The test is buggy as it should have a better guard for getpwuid failure. It should certainly be fixed. However, this hasn't changed from 5.10.1 AFAICS and seems to work on all the other buildds so building it somewhere with a good passwd database would be the quickest way to get the 5.12 transition going. See also #479944. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
