Re: [perl #123079] v5.21.5-123-gdf8d573 should have bumped $VERSION

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014, at 14:46, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote:
> On Wed Oct 29 01:03:39 2014, demerphq wrote:> > On 29 October 2014 06:55, Andreas J. Koenig via RT <> > perl...@perl.org> wrote:> > > As per subject. Triaging requires version number differentiation.> > > Cpantesters have to rely on the data collected at the source, so there> > > is no way to look into files or try things out to see whether a> > > particular feature is there or is working. We have just the summary of> > > version informations in the test reports. So we urgently need a> > > different version number on every change.> > Sorry about that.  It was just a temporary thing that I did not realise> would affect the smoking infrastructure.  It’s now resolved with the bona> fide upgrade in 64f5fd4.> > > This is about FC changing the bundled Test::More without a version bump.> > > > To save others digging it references this commit. Shouldn't this have been> > picked up by the porting tests?> > How would that work?  Wouldn’t the porting tests have to fetch from CPAN> everything in cpan/ and compare it?

Not necessarily, I would think. It would just have to use the Git
plumbing to get what files changed in the last X revisions, and see if
those changes included changing the $VERSION for .pm files that already
included one.

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