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

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Hilmar,

On Mi, 04 Sep 2013, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > I imported the 2 changed files into my texinfo 5.1 build dir. Now the
> > test suite fails even more often. I'm afraid we have to use an svn
> > checkout...unless upstream prepares a release ASAP and we disable the
> > test suite until then.

I think we wait for a new release ...

> So, my suggestion would be to disable the test suite (or the two
> single tests if possible) and then wait for the release.

is there an urgent need to fix it *now*?

Norbert

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