#650080 hurd-specific perl test failures

Package:
hurd
Source:
hurd
Submitter:
Dominic Hargreaves
Date:
2024-10-04 12:51:01 UTC
Severity:
serious
Blocked By:
Bug Title
648623

  11

 Tests skipped on GNU/Hurd

normal stable testing unstable almost 12 years ago

#650080#5
Date:
2011-11-26 11:52:39 UTC
From:
To:
perl isn't ready for release with hurd yet. This bug will be blocked by
the tracking bug in perl (#648623).
#650080#12
Date:
2011-11-26 12:04:15 UTC
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To:
Dominic Hargreaves, le Sat 26 Nov 2011 11:52:39 +0000, a écrit :

Because 8, that is, 0.4% of the perl testsuite fails?? That seems
exageration to me. The failures are often corner cases which don't
actually have so much impact. Probably we can take the time to check
whether that really is the case, just like we can probably take the time
to fix all bugs in the world...

Samuel
#650080#17
Date:
2011-11-26 12:13:47 UTC
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The reason for filing this tracking bug is because we don't want hurd to
become a release architecture with tests which haven't been investigated
in perl disabled (as per #648623). Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

I don't actually know how much of your above paragraph is sarcasm, but
I hope that you do think that we should investigate the failures.

I'm going to create more specific bugs per test failure in the perl
soon, and then those can be reassigned to hurd as needed where there
is functionality missing in hurd. When we have a good idea of what issues
are present, we can revisit the severity of this bug (of course, you are
free to downgrade this now if you prefer).

Cheers,
Dominic.
#650080#22
Date:
2011-11-26 13:04:47 UTC
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To:
Dominic Hargreaves, le Sat 26 Nov 2011 12:13:47 +0000, a écrit :

I do, indeed, and before any kind of release. But I believe the failure
effects themselves don't warrant preventing a releases.

Ok, things are clear now, thanks for explanation ):

Samuel
#650080#27
Date:
2024-09-20 05:57:30 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Dom,

I am checking old rc bugs in unstable to see whether affected packages
should be removed and this bug popped up.

Did this get any further?

I looked at a current perl build for hurd-i386 and indeed there are
quite a few tests that are being skipped, buut i386 has a similar number
of skips. Could you mark this bug as being blocked by the individual
failures? If there are no individual failures left, can this bug be
closed?

Thanks for looking

Helmut
#650080#32
Date:
2024-10-04 12:13:52 UTC
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I don't remember I'm afraid, and won't have any time to work on this any
time soon. I don't have current context on the state of the hurd port to
know whether this bug should be closed - I guess that is for debian-hurd@
to comment on.