On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 17:26 -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
I'm not sure if there's a more appropriate venue to bring this up; the package doesn't seem to have any sort of explicit issue tracker.
On the NixOS build servers, we're seeing across-the-board failures for the 0.4.2.0 release of the 'tar' library, specifically, two properties that were added in the latest release.
It looks to me like prop_lookup is fundamentally broken---it falls over in the face of a lookup for 'a/b' in a list of entries that includes 'a/b/c/d', because while the library lookup function returns a match including the remainder of the path as a result, the Data.List.lookup that it's comparing against returns nothing.
I don't see a way for the test as it is constituted to work reliably. I'm going to guess that prop_valid suffers from a similar issue.
Either way, it would be nice if they could either be corrected, or diked out until that happens.
Cheers, yes my mistake. I'll fix the test and do a minor release. Duncan