On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:18:47 +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Dear all, > > there is a perl-5.12-transition issue filed [1] against > libcache-historical-perl, Looks like the footnote is missing :) I guess this is #615882, cc'ing he bug (and keeping the full quote). > a packaging which I myself have > prepared. Since I am not progressive enough to bring in > perl-5.12 from experimental, let me convey an observation > which might help in understanding whether the transition > could cause similar artifacts elsewhere. > > The failed test, a single test out of nineteen, concerns > a list returned based on content in an SQLite3 database. > The list should nominally be implicitly sorted by date, > stored in fields not reproduced by the printout. However, > this is the important point, the delivered strings differs > from the expected string by a single cyclic permutation, > since the presented/stored values are really value pairs: > an integer and a measurement. > > If this ordering issue will be recognised as such in other > transition reports, we will have gained in understanding > the whole step forward. > > The complete test suite is passed succesfully when being > run with the installed package and today's perl-5.10. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #50: Change in Earth's rotational speed
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