G'day einhverfr,

"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

In reply to Re: Funky Test Failure, How to Correct by kcott
in thread Funky Test Failure, How to Correct by einhverfr

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