Package Details: perl-test-simple 1.302222-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/perl-test-simple.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: perl-test-simple
Description: Backend for building test libraries
Upstream URL: https://metacpan.org/dist/Test-Simple
Licenses: Artistic-1.0-Perl OR GPL-1.0-or-later
Submitter: homerhsing
Maintainer: homerhsing
Last Packager: homerhsing
Votes: 2
Popularity: 0.83
First Submitted: 2026-04-27 01:37 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-06-27 02:53 (UTC)

Latest Comments

ryoskzypu commented on 2026-06-18 11:23 (UTC)

m040601, yeah in most cases. This depends when a pkg requires a Test::Simple version higher than the one bundled with Perl; the current version in perl 5.42.2 is 1.302210 (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/perl/-/blob/c6b666d4c4e4d9f1c59b499ebfcb3462d3ec12a1/PKGBUILD#L114), but the latest on CPAN is 1.302222. So, in this case it's useful to have perl-test-simple satisfied.

m040601 commented on 2026-06-18 10:24 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-18 10:44 (UTC) by m040601) 

ryoskzypu commented on 2026-06-18 01:04 (UTC)
likely because it's implicitly supported in the perl pkg, since Test::Simple is a dual-life module

Thanks for the like I went on and read that page. I'm not a PKGBUILD expert, much less of a perl one. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Does that mean than that, when I see a line like this in any AUR PKGBUILD,

Dependencies (X)

  • ...
  • perl-test-simple^AUR (perl-git^AUR, perl)
  • ...

or

  • perl-test-simple^AUR (perl-git^AUR, perl) (make)

or

  • perl-test-simple^AUR (perl-git^AUR, perl) (check)

I should expect that PKGBUILD to be "just satisfied" with my perl installation ? I should expect it to just build correctly, and do not need in any case to fetch this AUR version of "perl-test-simple" ?

ryoskzypu commented on 2026-06-18 01:04 (UTC)

likely because it's implicitly supported in the perl pkg, since Test::Simple is a dual-life module

homerhsing commented on 2026-06-17 17:24 (UTC)

Hi m040601,

You should reach out to the official Arch Linux developers and ask them to adopt perl-test-simple into the official repositories.

m040601 commented on 2026-06-17 17:10 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-17 17:13 (UTC) by m040601)

QUESTION: Why is "perl-test-simple" not an official Archlinux package ? Why is it only available on the AUR ?

First, thanks to homerhsing, for maintaining this PKGBUILD.

Context is, I'm trying to reduce my dependencies from the AUR. I noticed that some of my tools depend on "perl-test-simple" . Then I noticed that a huge load of perl stuff depends on it,

Required by (267)

  • bucardo (check)
  • glpi-agent (make)
  • hivex-git (make)
  • licensecheck (check)
  • perl-acme-damn
  • perl-aliased (check)
  ........
  .....
  • Show 247 more...

That made me wonder. Such an important dependency. Why hasnt this "perl-simple-test" been picked up by an official Arch developer yet ?

Also only two votes on the AUR ? Strange.

I understand that things are only official Arch packages if there is an official Arch developer willing to maintain it.

But actually I see a loooot , more than thirty of official Archlinux packages with the name "perl-test-XXX"

pacman -Ss perl-test

Antonio Rojas for example maintains lotz of them,

     27 Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
      1 Packager        : Caleb Maclennan <alerque@archlinux.org>
      2 Packager        : Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
      1 Packager        : George Rawlinson <grawlinson@archlinux.org>
      1 Packager        : Sergej Pupykin <spupykin@archlinux.org>
      7 Packager        : T.J. Townsend <blakkheim@archlinux.org>

So my question.

Have you tried asking any one of the official Arch developers to adopt and maintain "perl-simple-test" as an official Arch package ?

Is anyone else interested in making this request together ?

Thanks in advance.