Bug#720866: texinfo: FTBFS with perl 5.18: test failures

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

Source: texinfo
Version: 5.1.dfsg.1-4
Severity: serious
Justification: transition imminent
User: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.18-transition
Tags: sid jessie

This package FTBFS with perl 5.18:

FAIL: test_scripts/sectioning_equivalent_nodes_test_renamed_nodes.sh
FAIL: test_scripts/layout_formatting_chm.sh

This doesn't obviously look like a perl 5.18 issue for me, but
it failed on two separate occasions when the same version passed on a
plain sid chroot. Sorry I can't do any more investigation at the moment.

Please ask debian-perl@lists.debian.org if you need help with preparing
or testing a change; if you have a suitable test i386 system you can
install perl 5.18 by adding experimental to your sources as well as the
repository at <http://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/test/perl-5.18.0/>

You can also find more about the perl 5.18 transition, which we hope
to start tomorrow[1], at <http://bugs.debian.org/712615>.

Thanks for your work!

Cheers,
Dominic.

[1] apologies for the late appearance of this bug report; earlier
test coverage did not cover this package, possibly because of issues
in build-dependencies