Re: PREREQ_PM ignored by cpan-tester

Is there something else I'm supposed to do ?

Ignore it?

What's the recommended way of avoiding such FAIL reports ?

Ignore it, its unavoidable?

Ok, enough quasi jokes

One easy suggestion to make, contact those testers directly to do some digging, like for example, provide the output that comes before make test

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Re^2: PREREQ_PM ignored by cpan-tester by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 31, 2016 at 12:29 UTC
Ignore it? Yes, I do try to ignore false FAILs - but sometimes they get the better of me. The number of these FAILs is now 4 (all from the same tester). If he decides to test 20 different perl configurations then I'll end up with 20 FAILs - which is even harder to ignore. If there's no suitable workaround that I can implement to circumvent these particular FAILs, then that makes them even more insidious. The tester in this particular case is Peter Acklam. He has been responsive in the past, so I've notified him of the problem. I also get other occasional false FAILS as a result of a different issue affecting only App::cpanminus::reporter, as far as I know. For example see: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/78ab4860-c608-11e5-9eb0-875dfcf88752 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/7955d258-c608-11e5-9eb0-875dfcf88752 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/7a4a4ad6-c608-11e5-9eb0-875dfcf88752 All of those fail to compile, and should therefore report UNKNOWN. But they come back as FAIL. Annoying as those ones are I at least can provide a workaround for them if I think it's worth the effort .... and worth the risk of getting the workaround wrong :-( Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^3: PREREQ_PM ignored by cpan-tester by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 04, 2016 at 12:13 UTC
The tester in this particular case is Peter Acklam. He has been responsive in the past, so I've notified him of the problem. Peter noticed that the false FAIL reports were specific to perl-5.14.x, and that the problem vanished if EU-MM was updated to version 6.58. The next release of Math::MPC will therefore specify EU-MM-6.58 as a PREREQ_PM, which should avoid these FAILs. There's nothing in the Math::MPC distro that actually needs version 6.58 or later, so this change is made solely for the purpose of avoiding a CPAN::Reporter bug. (I hope it doesn't inconvenience someone who is actually wanting to use Math::MPC ... I think that's unlikely.) The FAIL count because of this single issue has now risen to 42. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: PREREQ_PM ignored by cpan-tester by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 04, 2016 at 20:07 UTC
The FAIL count because of this single issue has now risen to 42. Ah, you have the answer then. ;) Premature optimization is the root of all job security	[reply]
Re^2: PREREQ_PM ignored by cpan-tester by Anonymous Monk on Jan 31, 2016 at 10:05 UTC
Some perspective Read more... (304 Bytes) However, given that tester was using the latest CPAN::Reporter, maybe also drop a line to CPAN::Reporter author	[reply]