[Bug 611015] perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule fails to build

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611015

--- Comment #4 from Iain Arnell <iarnell at gmail.com> 2010-07-27 13:24:08 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Checking test results on CPAN, results on different perl versions, checking
> source code show the problem is more mysterious.

Certainly, bleadperl is throwing up more problems.

> More ever adding some debugging prints into the test one can see Data::Dumper
> treat local hashes and AST hashes in different manner.

Just more indentation differences? Or really different?

> In addition if we patch the tests, it will start failing on lower perls.

Not too much of a problem for us. Either patch the tests only in f14+, or
better, simply do something like:

make test \
|| diff -qb t/ast/00-basic.t{,_} \
&& mv -f t/ast/00-basic.t{_,} \
&& make test


(In reply to comment #3)
>Openly said, I don't see much sense in trying to "fix" this package.

At the minute, the package itself doesn't seem to be broken - only its tests
fail for an understandable reason.

>It's not used by Fedora, 

Think of the DarkPAN!

>its upstream build-matrix 
>(http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Pugs-Compiler-Rule+0.37)
>also speaks a very clear language.

That its test fail - but we can see why.

>My vote goes to "let this package die".

I don't really mind either way. Just playing devil's advocate. But according to
rel-eng, Steve needs to kill it, not you (or us).

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