Subject: Re: [bug#29030] [PATCH] perl-sys-cpu: Mark cpu_type and cpu_clock tests as TODO.

From: Eric Bavier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:29:07 -0500

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 09:51:24 +0200
[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> 
> Eric Bavier <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> > On my system, perl-sys-cpu's tests fail because of differences in the information available in /proc/cpuinfo.
> >
> > Debian's patch for this perl module seemed nice: rather than trying to fix the related functions, just concede that the module is mostly used just to read the number of available processors and mark the other tests as "TODO".  
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +              (snippet
> > +               '(begin
> > +                  ;; Replace test with one that marks cpu_clock and cpu_type
> > +                  ;; as TODO.  Borrowed from Debian.  
> 
> Perhaps make it clear in the comment that we do this because the
> contents of /proc/cpuinfo differ based on different factors.

OK.

> Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Thanks, pushed in 9de52b56438674c0d0f92be34cebf5f1a38a6bfa.

`~Eric