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  • I think you should take a closer look at the reasons for the fails, e.g. by looking at the CPAN Testers Matrix [radzeit.de] to find patterns in the failures.

    For the mentioned distributions it looks like:

    • Scalar-List-Utils: FAILs only with devel perl
    • YAML: mostly only devel and old perls have FAILs
    • File-Spec, Exporter, base: looks OK
    • Test-Simple: granted, there are some unexpected red spots
    • File-Temp: 0.18 completely OK, new problems with 0.19

    I also don't think you should target for 100% PASS. There are always pro

    • I'm not sure I like the idea of retracting reports, because who is to say what is invalid?

      I know some situations where authors have said reports are invalid for things like not working with Perl 5.005...
      • If you look at the Tk-804.027 reports, then you see a lot of FAIL reports which are sort-of invalid: testers who don't have a running X server, hence almost all tests fail. Sure, the test suite could check first if there's a running X server (in fact, this is done for Tk-804.028-tobe). Well, now it's more work for me to find the legitimate reports.

        Maybe not retracting reports, but have some means of commenting them would be enough?

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