This bug has been reported upstream: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96951&results=eee337c2d5448b6ee414c3b37552298a However, that is not really much relevant to upstream anymore, as this bug affects only Test-Simple versions 0.98_05 and 0.98_06 Its very rare to happen, and can only happen if perl-core/Test-Simple-0.980.5 is installed. Which is peculiar, because no virtuals pertain to that perl-core/ version. Unfortunately however, the virtuals themselves don't prevent this. This is a legal combination: =perl-core/Test-Simple-0.980.5 =virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.980.0-r3 =dev-lang/perl-5.18.2 And this configuration leads to Test::Class failing tests. (Because in this configuration, the version of Test::Simple is 0.98_05, not 0.98 ) The simplest option here is to simply delete "perl-core/Test-Simple-0.980.5", which should have never entered portage as that number anyway as upstream consider that a "-dev" version. > gentoo-perlmod-version.pl --lax=1 0.98_05 > 0.98_05 => 0.980.500_rc ====== TLDR: =perl-core/Test-Simple-0.980.5 # Should be nuked Providing a newer version of Test::Simple may also mask the symptoms, but that version really aught not to be in tree.
This bug should be impossible now due changes in virtuals. but =perl-core/Test-Simple-0.980.5-r1 should still be obliterated because there is no legitimate way to install it any more. Good: virtual: 0.980.0-r5 core : 0.980.0-r1 Okish: virtual: 1.1.2 core : 1.1.2 ( Overlay only ) Bad: virtual: NONE core : 0.980.5-r1
After talking to dilfridge on IRC, we've decided to erase the package without masking it. Indeed, we're only removing a version of the package and not the entire Portage tree directory so it is fine to do so. Here's the last ChangeLog entry, as far as perl-core/Test-Simple is concerned: $ pwd /home/patrice/gentoo-x86/perl-core/Test-Simple $ head -6 ChangeLog # ChangeLog for perl-core/Test-Simple # Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/perl-core/Test-Simple/ChangeLog,v 1.99 2014/10/28 23:26:11 monsieurp Exp $ 28 Oct 2014; Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> -Test-Simple-0.980.5-r1.ebuild: Removing this package. See bug 520756. Thanks Kent!
> Removing this package. See bug 520756. Now the question is, did you get that right in the changelog =)
