Bug#931881: diffoscope: undeclared versioned dependency on file

2019-07-11 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
mh, no. I think some logic needs tweaking, as file is definitely present (it's an hard dependency of diffoscope), and that test should just be skipped. On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:42 PM Chris Lamb wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > At the very least, it seems this should be a versioned test

Bug#931881: diffoscope: undeclared versioned dependency on file

2019-07-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Steve Langasek wrote: > At the very least, it seems this should be a versioned test dep on file (>= > 5.37), but perhaps it should also be a versioned runtime dependency. I > haven't looked to see what the impact is of the wrong version of 'file' when > DIFFOSCOPE_TESTS_FAIL_ON_MISSING_TOOLS is

Bug#931730: libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl: build dependency cycle with libsub-identify-perl

2019-07-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Niko, > > I guess in theory but if I recall the details correctly, I don't > > /think/ this was going to be a trivial patch to Archive::Zip and my > > Perl-fu is/was a bit weak. Would pkg-perl apply and upload a patch > > anyway? […] > Obviously features would be best developed upstream.