Re: Funky Test Failure, How to Correct

"So this is specific to one (or so) Perl 5.19.6 system"

The CPAN Testers Report you linked to indicates Perl v5.19.9 (not Perl v.5.19.6): "This is a computer-generated report for PGObject-Type-DateTime-1.00.001 on perl 5.19.9 ...".

"Since 5.19.6 is a development release, I am going to treat it as a Perl bug."

Take a look at the perldelta for 5.19.9; in particular, the "Tainting happens under more circumstances; now conforms to documentation" section.

[Note: that seems like a good place to start looking — I haven't investigated this any further myself.]

-- Ken

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Re^2: Funky Test Failure, How to Correct by einhverfr (Friar) on Feb 25, 2014 at 04:00 UTC
Thanks for your reply. It is helpful. Looking at the line (in a dependency) that is throwing the error and the documentation, I am entirely hard-pressed to see this as deliberate. The line which is throwing the error is, again, `use parent 'Class::Singleton', 'DateTime::TimeZone::OffsetOnly';` There is nothing dynamic in either string. There is no pattern matching going on. And the same tests are passed on two other 5.19.9 systems. If this is a deliberate change, it is not conforming to any reasonable interpretation of the documentation I can think of.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Funky Test Failure, How to Correct
by einhverfr (Friar) on Feb 25, 2014 at 04:00 UTC

Thanks for your reply. It is helpful.

Looking at the line (in a dependency) that is throwing the error and the documentation, I am entirely hard-pressed to see this as deliberate. The line which is throwing the error is, again,

use parent 'Class::Singleton', 'DateTime::TimeZone::OffsetOnly';

There is nothing dynamic in either string. There is no pattern matching going on. And the same tests are passed on two other 5.19.9 systems. If this is a deliberate change, it is not conforming to any reasonable interpretation of the documentation I can think of.

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