Yes… I’m a newbie for the third or fourth time, now. 
3.6.6; slack 12
testdeps is failing HTML::FormatText; the tests there are failing
because:
cpan[5]> install HTML::FormatText
Running install for module ‘HTML::FormatText’
Running make for S/SB/SBURKE/HTML-Format-2.04.tar.gz
Has already been unwrapped into directory
/root/.cpan/build/HTML-Format-2.04-Xexmwz
Has already been made
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl5.8.8 “-MExtUtils::Command::MM” “-e”
“test_harness(0, ‘blib/lib’, ‘blib/arch’)” t/*.t
t/ps…1/4 Can’t locate Font/Metrics/TimesRoman.pm in @INC (@INC
contains: /root/.cpan/build/HTML-Format-2.04-Xexmwz/blib/lib
/root/.cpan/build/HTML-Format-2.04-Xexmwz/blib/arch
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i486-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i486-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
/root/.cpan/build/HTML-Format-2.04-Xexmwz/blib/lib/HTML/FormatPS.pm
line 385.
t/ps… Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 3/4 subtests
t/rtf…ok
t/text…ok
Test Summary Report
t/ps.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 1 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 2
Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 4 tests but ran 1.
Files=3, Tests=10, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr 0.01 sys + 0.32 cusr
0.04 csys = 0.40 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/3 test programs. 0/10 subtests failed.
I’m not sure what is supposed to provide the font metrics files, but a
locate says:
root@network_doctor:/appl/downloads/rt-3.6.6# locate TimesRoman.pm
/root/.cpan/build/Font-AFM-1.19-HYV3Mf/blib/lib/Font/Metrics/TimesRoman.pm
/root/.cpan/build/Font-AFM-1.19-HYV3Mf/lib/Font/Metrics/TimesRoman.pm
/root/.cpan/build/Font-AFM-1.19-hkL_yy/blib/lib/Font/Metrics/TimesRoman.pm
/root/.cpan/build/Font-AFM-1.19-hkL_yy/lib/Font/Metrics/TimesRoman.pm
/root/.cpan/build/Font-AFM-1.19-2VaIXZ/blib/lib/Font/Metrics/TimesRoman.pm
/root/.cpan/build/Font-AFM-1.19-2VaIXZ/lib/Font/Metrics/TimesRoman.pm
Presumably Font::AFM was a dependency of some top-level RT dep.
I tried manually installing it, and it skipped one test for no apparent
reason:
Manifying blib/man3/Font::AFM.3
GAAS/Font-AFM-1.19.tar.gz
/usr/bin/make – OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl5.8.8 “-MExtUtils::Command::MM” “-e”
“test_harness(0, ‘blib/lib’, ‘blib/arch’)” t/*.t
t/afm…skipped: (no reason given)
t/times…ok
Test Summary Report
t/afm.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
Failed test: 1
Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 0 tests but ran 1.
Files=2, Tests=3, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.02 cusr
0.01 csys = 0.05 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/2 test programs. 1/3 subtests failed.
I know this is, strictly speaking, Perl/CPAN trouble, but I also figure
it’s RT, and you guys are the ones voted most likely to have a snap
answer.
Any pointers?
Cheers,
– jra
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