[this bug is NOT targeted to the upcoming trixie release]

ruby-mechanize autopkg tests fail with libxml 2.14.x from experimental,
and all it's dependencies built with that libxml version.

at least some of these failures look related to the updated libxml.

[...]

94s Finished in 0.545856s, 1342.8455 runs/s, 4633.0919 assertions/s.
  94s
  94s   1) Skipped:
  94s TestMechanize#test_retry_change_requests_equals
[test/test_mechanize.rb:1069]:
  94s net-http-persistent 4.0.0 and later does not support
retry_change_requests
  94s
  94s   2) Error:
  94s TestMechanize#test_click_hpricot_style:
  94s NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize.rb:391:in
`click'
  94s     test/test_mechanize.rb:149:in `test_click_hpricot_style'
  94s
  94s   3) Error:
  94s TestMechanize#test_click:
  94s NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize.rb:391:in
`click'
  94s     test/test_mechanize.rb:92:in `test_click'
  94s
  94s   4) Skipped:
  94s TestMechanizeHttpAgent#test_retry_change_request_equals
[test/test_mechanize_http_agent.rb:1667]:
  94s net-http-persistent 4.0.0 and later does not support
retry_change_requests
  94s
  94s   5) Error:
  94s TestMechanizePageLink#test_encoding_charset_bad:
  94s Nokogiri::XML::SyntaxError: Parser without recover option
encountered error or warning: 1:1: FATAL: Invalid bytes in character
encoding
  94s
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.18.2/lib/nokogiri/html4/document.rb:230:in
`read_memory'
  94s
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.18.2/lib/nokogiri/html4/document.rb:230:in
`parse'
  94s
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.18.2/lib/nokogiri/html4.rb:20:in
`parse'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:122:in
`block in parser'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:121:in
`reverse_each'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:121:in
`parser'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:100:in
`encoding_error?'
  94s     test/test_mechanize_page_link.rb:147:in
`test_encoding_charset_bad'
  94s
  94s   6) Error:
  94s TestMechanizePageLink#test_encoding_charset_after_title_bad:
  94s Nokogiri::XML::SyntaxError: Parser without recover option
encountered error or warning: 1:1: FATAL: Invalid bytes in character
encoding
  94s
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.18.2/lib/nokogiri/html4/document.rb:230:in
`read_memory'
  94s
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.18.2/lib/nokogiri/html4/document.rb:230:in
`parse'
  94s
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/3.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.18.2/lib/nokogiri/html4.rb:20:in
`parse'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:122:in
`block in parser'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:121:in
`reverse_each'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:121:in
`parser'
  94s
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/page.rb:100:in
`encoding_error?'
  94s     test/test_mechanize_page_link.rb:120:in
`test_encoding_charset_after_title_bad'
  94s
  94s   7) Error:
  94s TestMechanizeLink#test_click:
  94s NoMethodError: undefined method `text' for nil
  94s     test/test_mechanize_link.rb:29:in `test_click'
  94s
  94s   8) Error:
  94s TestMechanizeLink#test_uri_no_path:
  94s NoMethodError: undefined method `click' for nil
  94s     test/test_mechanize_link.rb:123:in `test_uri_no_path'
  94s
  94s   9) Error:
  94s TestMechanizeLink#test_resolving_full_uri:
  94s NoMethodError: undefined method `uri' for nil
  94s     test/test_mechanize_link.rb:167:in `test_resolving_full_uri'
  94s
  94s  10) Error:
  94s TestMechanizeLink#test_click_bang:
  94s RuntimeError: Neutered Exception Mechanize::ElementNotFoundError:
Element link with conditions {:text=>"Form Test"} was not found
  94s     (eval at
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/mechanize-2.10.1/lib/mechanize/element_matcher.rb:5):43:in
`link_with!'
  94s     test/test_mechanize_link.rb:37:in `test_click_bang'
  94s
  94s 733 runs, 2529 assertions, 0 failures, 8 errors, 2 skips
  94s rake aborted!

Dear maintainer,

I've prepared an NMU for ruby-mechanize (versioned as 2.10.1-1.1) and
uploaded it to DELAYED/15. Please feel free to tell me if I should
cancel it.

cu
Adrian

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ruby-mechanize, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1107539@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> (supplier of updated ruby-mechanize package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:31:47 +0300
Source: ruby-mechanize
Architecture: source
Version: 2.10.1-1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Ruby Team <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>
Closes: 1107539
Changes:
 ruby-mechanize (2.10.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Backport upstream fix for the tests with newer libxml2.
     (Closes: #1107539)
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