Test HashBase.t fails with perl 5.19.3 through 5.19.11

[andk]

Bisect points to v5.19.2-138-g137da2b05b; from that commit through to the end of the 5.19.x dev track the test HashBase.t fails for Test-Simple-1.302162 and as far as I can see for all Test-Simple 1.302xxx.

I have not sent any of the reports to cpantesters. Let me know if you need further details.

My motivation for writing this issue is that I had the itch to bisect through 5.19 for POD::Tested and could not do it with any version of Test::Simple that I tried.

[andk]

I should have added that of course there are ways to supply the right versions of dependent modules such that POD-Tested becomes bisectable. So this in not the point. The point is that a high - river toolchain infrastructure module would do better if it covered the historical dev bleadperl ranges in order to make bisecting convenient and not a thing that costs manual intervention.

[andk]

More context: POD-Tested is http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=POD-Tested%200.06.4. It is FAIL-only since perl v5.20. The breakage happened 2013 or 2014 between Test::More 0.98 and 1.001014. https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=115431 was the bug report against POD-Tested that caught my attention. It was filed 2016-06-18.

[wolfsage]

FWIW, you should still be able to bisect using --no-module-tests I would imagine

[andk]

Thanks, Matthew, for the suggestion. Will keep that option in mind next time I face such a situation. Actually, I was not talking about Porting/bisect-runner.pl but about bisecting in general. I should probably have considered using bisect-runner.pl.