Hi, This is a message regarding RT36554 (also at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36554) This is a quasi bug in one of the test cases (t/heuristics.t) that causes a single test to fail if your local internet service provider is playing silly buggers with failed host name lookups. Although I discuss the problem in more detail over on the referenced link, the short story is that some internet providers return a positive result for 'www.perl.bz' even though that domain does not really exist. It appears that some providers use the opportunity of a failed hostname lookup to return some 'helpful' adverstivements. This is very common among a lot of internet providers targeting private homes.
As a result URI fails to install, even though this test failure is really not related to any problems with URI. However, it seems that 9 out of the 11 reported test failures are related to this problem. The fix is trivial and I have posted it on a fork of the URI git repository over at: http://gitorious.org/~jnapiorkowski/perl-uri/uri-heuristicstest-fix You can also see the exact diff of this proposed patch over at: http://gitorious.org/~jnapiorkowski/perl-uri/uri-heuristicstest-fix/commit/b18366e443138fe41125d659e9572a0e90392c87 I sent in a merge request to the URI git mainline, but it was rejected. The reason given was that no one had heard of this problem. Please spend a moment looking at the RT mentioned and you can see this problem has been reported for over a year. If I am not following the correct procedure for submitting bugs and patches, please let me know. Right now this problem is affecting my work deployment and every time I have to tell the local admin to force install URI before installing Catalyst this gets flagged and I have to answer why I am doing new development in Perl when it's so buggy :) Thanks! John
