[Bug 681755] RFE: Please upgrade Test::Simple

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Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |fedora-perl-devel-list at redh
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          Component|perl                        |perl-Test-Simple
         AssignedTo|mmaslano at redhat.com         |cweyl at alumni.drew.edu

--- Comment #3 from Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> 2011-03-03 06:14:49 EST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> 
> I wonder why I have to explain this to you?
>
Because this bug has been submitted against perl which I maintain.

> It has been well known to all Fedora packager since Fedora day one, that
> without keeping fedora's perl and it's modules sufficiently recent
> 
> - It's impossible for Fedora maintainers to react upon bugs in reasonable
> times (c.f. Fedora QA's silly delay queues)
>
Yes, some widely used packages, like perl-Test-Simple, should be maintained in
latest version to avoid delays.

> - Fedora encouraging its users to use CPAN and thus to expose them to corrupt
> their installation.
> 
This is problem of release based distribution. You could apply this argument to
any Perl module or any other package.

> > There must be strong reason like fixing a bug.
> Yes, 
> 
> * Fedora's Test::Simple is suffering from the following list of bugs
> (http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.98/Changes)
> 
> 0.98  Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:38:02 +1100
>     Bug Fixes
>     * subtest() should not fail if $? is non-zero. (Aaron Crane)
> 
>     Docs
>     * The behavior of is() and undef has been documented. (Pedro Melo)
> 
> 
> 0.97_01  Fri Aug 27 22:50:30 PDT 2010
>     Test Fixes
>     * Adapted the tests for the new Perl 5.14 regex stringification.
>       (Karl Williamson) [github 44]
> 
>     Doc Fixes
>     * Document how to test "use Foo ()". (Todd Rinaldo) [github 41]
> 
>     Feature Changes
>     * subtest() no longer has a prototype.  It was just getting in the way.
>       [rt.cpan.org 54239]
>     * The filehandles used by default will now inherit any filehandle
>       disciplines from STDOUT and STDERR IF AND ONLY IF they were applied
>       before Test::Builder is loaded.  More later. [rt.cpan.org 46542]
> 
> 
> 0.96  Tue Aug 10 21:13:04 PDT 2010
>     Bug Fixes
>     * You can call done_testing() again after reset() [googlecode 59]
> 
>     Other
>     * Bug tracker moved to github
> 
> 
> 0.95_02  Wed May 19 15:46:52 PDT 2010
>     Bug Fixes
>     * Correct various typos and spelling errors (Nick Cleaton)
>     * Fix alignment of indented multi-line diagnostics from subtests
>       (Nick Cleaton)
>     * Fix incorrect operation when subtest called from within a todo block
>       (Nick Cleaton)
>     * Avoid spurious output after a fork within a subtest
>       (Nick Cleaton)
> 
> 
> 0.95_01  Wed Mar  3 15:36:59 PST 2010
>     Bug Fixes
>     * is_deeply() didn't see a difference in regexes [rt.cpan.org 53469]
>     * Test::Builder::Tester now sets $tb->todo_output to the output handle and
>       not the error handle (to be in accordance with the default behaviour of
>       Test::Builder and allow for testing TODO test behaviour).
>     * Fixed file/line in failing subtest() diagnostics. (Nick Cleaton)
>     * Protect against subtests setting $Level (Nick Cleaton)
> 
>     New Features
>     * subtests without a 'plan' or 'no_plan' have an implicit 'done_testing()'
>       added to them.
>     * is_deeply() performance boost for large structures consisting of
>       mostly non-refs (Nick Cleaton)
> 
>     Feature Changes
>     * is() and others will no longer stringify its arguments before
>       comparing.  Overloaded objects will make use of their eq
>       overload rather than their "" overload.  This can break tests of
>       impolitely string overloaded objects.  DateTime prior to 0.54 is
>       the biggest example.
> 
Thank you for pointing issues in perl(Test-Simple). We will address them. 

Respectively, the module already lives dually. Reassigning for proper component
perl-Test-Simple.

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