[Bug 828320] New: perl 5.18 is broken, that tests with UTF-8 strings fails randomly
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828320 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828320#c0 Summary: perl 5.18 is broken, that tests with UTF-8 strings fails randomly Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 13.1 Milestone 2 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Keywords: dogfood Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: mls@suse.com ReportedBy: werner@suse.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de CC: coolo@suse.com Found By: Development Blocker: --- For a history see https://github.com/plk/biber/issues/6 as this is my bug report for biblatex-biber. What bothers is that the errors occur randomly which may idicate a bug in perl 5.18.0 as otherwise an error should be well repeatable. You may report/forward this to upstream perl -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #1 from Stephan Kulow
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--- Comment #2 from Dr. Werner Fink
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--- Comment #3 from Michael Schröder
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--- Comment #4 from Dr. Werner Fink
From upstream developer of biblatex-biber:
| bitstreamout commented |> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 11:35:53PM -0700, plk wrote: |> I have just run the test | suite under Windows Strawberry perl 5.18 and it's |> all fine for me ... | | And your're sure that the perl 5.18 on Windows[tm] has enabled randomization | of the hash table implementation. Do have tried my test perl script? If there | are no random results the major feature of perl 5.18 is not enabled. | plk commented | Yes, I get random results on the perl 5.18 with which I ran the tests. I don't | think this is the problem - I don't rely on the order of hashes in biber - no | perl programmer who has a clue has ever done that anyway - this is why it's | possible for perl 5.18 to make this change at all ... In other words our perl installation seems to broken ... maybe one or more of the required perl modules below devel:languages:perl and devel:languages:perl:CPAN-* do not work with perl 5.18 Beside this the upstream developer of perl(Data::Diver) has written | I'll try to release a new dist this weekend. | | Tye on tex-live@tug.org on a mail with subject: [tex-live] TL13: biblatex-biber using perl(Data::Diver) without license information -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #5 from Dr. Werner Fink
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