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=== Tuesday 2nd September 2008 ===

==== Local Packages ====

More perl modules from the `Test::Output` dependency tree:
 * New package `perl-Clone` (0.28)
 * New package `perl-Data-OptList` (0.103)
 * New package `perl-List-MoreUtils` (0.22)
 * New package `perl-Params-Util` (0.17 for RHL9, FC1, FC2, RHEL3, all of which have `Scalar::Util` < 0.14, 0.33 for more recent distributions)
 * New package `perl-Perl-MinimumVersion` (1.18)
 * New package `perl-PPI` (1.201)
 * New package `perl-Sub-Exporter` (0.979)
 * New package `perl-Taint-Runtime` (0.03)
 * New package `perl-Test-MinimumVersion` (0.008)
 * New package `perl-Test-Object` (0.07)
 * New package `perl-Test-Output` (0.10)

Other updates:
 * Updated `curl` to 7.19.0
 * Updated `dovecot` to 1.1.3
 * Updated `perl-Test-Pod` to 1.26
 * Updated `perl-HTML-SimpleLinkExtor` to 1.21

I did have an issue building `perl-Test-Output` for Fedora 8 (and only Fedora 8).
The test suite failed like this:
{{{
t/00.load............# Testing Test::Output 0.10
ok
t/combined_is........
#   Failed test 'Test 'STDOUT matches success' completed'
#   at t/combined_is.t line 16.
# Can't use string ("Test::Tester::Capture") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Test/Builder.pm line 1602.

#   Failed test 'Test 'STDOUT matches success' result count'
#   at t/combined_is.t line 16.
#          got: 0
#     expected: 1
}}}
By a process of elimination, I tracked this down to the fact that `perl-Test-Simple` package in the Fedora 8 updates repository, whilst claiming to be version 0.62, is in fact version 0.78, and that a change introduced in `Test::Simple` 0.77 was the cause of the test suite failures. Fedora 9 and Rawhide are not affected by this yet because their `perl-Test-Simple` packages are still at version 0.72. The update to 0.78 in Fedora 8 was a response to [[RedHatBugzilla:434865|Bug #434865]] so I added a comment there.
Not sure what the fix will be, or if indeed the broken part is `Test::Simple` or `Test::Output`'s test suite.
For the time being I worked around the problem by building a package `perl-Test-Simple` at version 0.75 and adding it to my Fedora 8 buildsystem. This is used in preference to the 0.78 version from Fedora updates because the Fedora updates package is still versioned at 0.62 for reasons I don't know.

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