dependency issue

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I saw other modules have the same issue, so I want to discuss the best
solution here.

On one platform (guess which) perl.cpan.testers reports a "FAIL" for
Class::DBI::Plugin:

http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/151956

It reports that it misses DBIx::ContextualFetch somewhere. But how can
this be? In my Makefile.PL, there's the dependency Class::DBI >= 0.90,
as is frequent in other plugin modules. So I traced the other depencies:

DBIx::ContextualFetch is required since Ima::DBI 0.32,
Class::DBI 0.95 required Ima::DBI 0.30,
Class::DBI 0.96 requires Ima::DBI 0.33.

So if I'm not wrong, there seems to be something wrong on this machine:
it has apparently Ima::DBI >= 0.32, but somehow doesn't have
DBIx::ContextualFetch.

What can we do? Ignore the "FAIL"? Inserting another dependency on
DBIx::ContextualFetch, as suggested in the report, looks lame to me...
        -- 
        Jean-Christophe Zeus <mail@xxxxxx.xxx>