[PackageEvaluator.jl] Your package StrPack may have a testing issue.

[IainNZ]

This issue is being filed by a script, but if you reply, I will see it.

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The status of this package, StrPack, on...

• Julia 0.2 is 'Tests fail, but package loads.'
• Julia 0.3 is 'Tests fail, but package loads.'

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[IainNZ]

INFO: Installing StrPack v0.0.0
INFO: Package database updated
ERROR: test error during roundtrip(A(0xbc))
IOString not defined
 in roundtrip at /home/idunning/pkgtest/.julia/v0.3/StrPack/test/test.jl:44
 in anonymous at test.jl:62
 in do_test at test.jl:37
 in include at boot.jl:244
 in include_from_node1 at loading.jl:128
while loading /home/idunning/pkgtest/.julia/v0.3/StrPack/test/test.jl, in expression starting on line 50
INFO: Package database updated

[pao]

sigh This was fixed by @ivarne in #11, but something something updating METADATA. I feel so far out of the loop on how packages actually work at this point that I'm not sure how to proceed (which is the same problem I ran into with deprecating Monads.jl).

Maybe I need to go maintainer shopping.

[IainNZ]

Posting on julia-dev would be a good idea

[IainNZ]

I can do any deprecation though, if that falls through.

[pao]

Appreciate it. I should probably actually figure it out, though.

Deprecating this would be last-resort. People do actually manage to use this package.

[IainNZ]

Yeah its pretty useful, and has been around for a long time too - its like a Julia relic :D

[pao]

Thanks @ivarne for following up. I should probably still figure out how to do all this myself at some point, but that day is not today :D

[ivarne]

Pkg.update()
Pkg.tag("StrPack")
Pkg.publish()

And then make someone push the Merge button (or do it yourself)

[pao]

That's all much less manual than before. Nice to hear.