Re: [BUG] A few tests fail on RC4/5.6.1/Debian Apache 2.0.52-3

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Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
[...]
> | whereas your report says Apache 2.0.52, whereas the error indicates
> |  that you really run Apache 2.1.x. [...] Dominique, did you build
> | Apache by yourself?
> 
> No indeed. This is apache2-mpm-prefork 2.0.52-3 from Debian testing,
> not the latest version in testing either. I cannot readily upgrade
> right now (apt-get says it's willing to install 2.0.53-5, but only if
> I give it permission to wipe out the rest of my system first :-) , but
> I'll try and recompile the .deb from its source and see if the problem
> goes away.

Most likely you will have the same problem with the newer debian package.

> | Is it possible that you have Apache 2.0.x with some special patches
> |  from 2.1.x applied to it? My guess is that this is the case. In
> | which case there is nothing we can do about it, since you aren't
> | running a proper Apache 2.0.x but some sort of hybrid.
> |
> If Debian testing turns out to have this problem, I think that the
> test should at least be skipped on that distro, otherwise I probably
> won't be the last one to report this :-).

No.

1) We can't skip the test just based on the fact that it's debian, since 
there will be other people who install a real Apache 2.0.x and not a 
mutant debian package, in which case it should not be skipped.

2) We can't please every distro out there. This is the same problem with 
distros adding future version patches to the perl-core and claiming to be 
what they aren't.

If you want the mod_perl test suite to pass make sure that you have an 
authentic, unpatched version of Apache and of Perl. Otherwise you are on 
your own (well, you can ask support of your distro).


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