(CC'd to testers-discuss, maybe somebody has some insight?) Hi David,
it looks like a bug in CPAN::Reporter to me (please make your mail reader wide): % /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/*/p*/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/bin/perl -I lib bin/ctgetreports --q meta:writer --q meta:from --q meta:perl --q qr:"(Failed test.*)" --ctformat=yaml --vdistro=parrot-0.8.0 parrot |& grep 'Failed test ' PASS 2485750 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'pasm_output_isnt: failure'] PASS 2473167 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'soup to nuts'] PASS 2472586 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:perl[5.8.7] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'pasm_output_isnt: failure'] PASS 2472469 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:perl[5.8.8] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'pasm_output_isnt: failure'] PASS 2472396 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'pasm_output_isnt: failure'] PASS 2472319 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:perl[5.10.0] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'pasm_output_isnt: failure'] PASS 2472246 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:[EMAIL PROTECTED] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'soup to nuts'] PASS 2472202 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[andreas.koenig.gmwojprw] meta:perl[5.10.0] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'pasm_output_isnt: failure'] PASS 2471971 meta:writer[CPAN-Reporter-1.1702] meta:from[imacat] meta:perl[5.10.0] qr:(Failed test.*)[Failed test 'pasm_output_isnt: failure'] What you see here is that all my reports and one from imacat reported a PASS but the output of the test contained "Failed test '....'". When reading these reports from top to bottom I find no clue why this happens. Do you? -- andreas