Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:56:27 +0100
From: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-yum@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: missing perl test modules in postgresqlXX-devel ?
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:57:22 +0800
Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> [...]
> 
> so apparently the TAP tests aren't built/enabled for any RHEL/CentOS
> versions in -13. The same is true for 10 and up, at least.
> 
> That's ... surprising. There's no comment to indicate why.
> 
> Git logs suggest the cause is commit 511834297 "Disable tap tests  on RHEL
> 7" . I think the package in question is perl-Test-Simple a.k.a
> 'perl(Test::Simple)'.

That's surprising. Grep'ing postgresql source doesn't catch anything about
Test::Simple. TAP tests in PostgreSQL sources rely on Test::More which is part
of the official Perl core modules at least since 5.8.0... Do I miss something?

> It looks like the test should be updated to enable them for RHEL 8 at least.
> 
> I don't really feel like wrestling builds for an obsolete OS version to get
> these packaged for EL-7 though.

EL7 is still very popular. A lot of new upgrade/packages are still going to
EL7, at least for maintenance.

Regards,