On 2024-04-09, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2024-04-09, Christopher Baines wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 2024-04-09, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>>>> On 2024-04-09, Wilko Meyer wrote:
>>>>> * gnu/packages/diffoscope.scm (diffoscope): Update to 263.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the update!
>>>>
>>>> Not a *huge* deal, but this version should have perl added to native
>>>> inputs, as some tests now use "zipdetails" from perl, and are skipped if
>>>> it is not present. Or does something else pull in perl?
>>>
>>> For a build without perl, the test coverage is:
>>>
>>>   638 passed, 72 skipped
>>>
>>> With perl added to native-inputs:
>>>
>>>   644 passed, 66 skipped
>>>
>>> That seems like a nice improvement. :)
>
> Or at least, not a regression from diffoscope 261:
>
>   https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/3903616/log/raw
>
>   644 passed, 66 skipped

I pushed a fix for this regression as
c1c9d6b3cdf5955f1bf5fded2a0c496ce2e631f1.