Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681755 Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fedora-perl-devel-list@redh | |at.com Component|perl |perl-Test-Simple AssignedTo|mmaslano@xxxxxxxxxx |cweyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Comment #3 from Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> 2011-03-03 06:14:49 EST --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > I wonder why I have to explain this to you? > Because this bug has been submitted against perl which I maintain. > It has been well known to all Fedora packager since Fedora day one, that > without keeping fedora's perl and it's modules sufficiently recent > > - It's impossible for Fedora maintainers to react upon bugs in reasonable > times (c.f. Fedora QA's silly delay queues) > Yes, some widely used packages, like perl-Test-Simple, should be maintained in latest version to avoid delays. > - Fedora encouraging its users to use CPAN and thus to expose them to corrupt > their installation. > This is problem of release based distribution. You could apply this argument to any Perl module or any other package. > > There must be strong reason like fixing a bug. > Yes, > > * Fedora's Test::Simple is suffering from the following list of bugs > (http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.98/Changes) > > 0.98 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:38:02 +1100 > Bug Fixes > * subtest() should not fail if $? is non-zero. (Aaron Crane) > > Docs > * The behavior of is() and undef has been documented. (Pedro Melo) > > > 0.97_01 Fri Aug 27 22:50:30 PDT 2010 > Test Fixes > * Adapted the tests for the new Perl 5.14 regex stringification. > (Karl Williamson) [github 44] > > Doc Fixes > * Document how to test "use Foo ()". (Todd Rinaldo) [github 41] > > Feature Changes > * subtest() no longer has a prototype. It was just getting in the way. > [rt.cpan.org 54239] > * The filehandles used by default will now inherit any filehandle > disciplines from STDOUT and STDERR IF AND ONLY IF they were applied > before Test::Builder is loaded. More later. [rt.cpan.org 46542] > > > 0.96 Tue Aug 10 21:13:04 PDT 2010 > Bug Fixes > * You can call done_testing() again after reset() [googlecode 59] > > Other > * Bug tracker moved to github > > > 0.95_02 Wed May 19 15:46:52 PDT 2010 > Bug Fixes > * Correct various typos and spelling errors (Nick Cleaton) > * Fix alignment of indented multi-line diagnostics from subtests > (Nick Cleaton) > * Fix incorrect operation when subtest called from within a todo block > (Nick Cleaton) > * Avoid spurious output after a fork within a subtest > (Nick Cleaton) > > > 0.95_01 Wed Mar 3 15:36:59 PST 2010 > Bug Fixes > * is_deeply() didn't see a difference in regexes [rt.cpan.org 53469] > * Test::Builder::Tester now sets $tb->todo_output to the output handle and > not the error handle (to be in accordance with the default behaviour of > Test::Builder and allow for testing TODO test behaviour). > * Fixed file/line in failing subtest() diagnostics. (Nick Cleaton) > * Protect against subtests setting $Level (Nick Cleaton) > > New Features > * subtests without a 'plan' or 'no_plan' have an implicit 'done_testing()' > added to them. > * is_deeply() performance boost for large structures consisting of > mostly non-refs (Nick Cleaton) > > Feature Changes > * is() and others will no longer stringify its arguments before > comparing. Overloaded objects will make use of their eq > overload rather than their "" overload. This can break tests of > impolitely string overloaded objects. DateTime prior to 0.54 is > the biggest example. > Thank you for pointing issues in perl(Test-Simple). We will address them. Respectively, the module already lives dually. Reassigning for proper component perl-Test-Simple. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
