Hello James, On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 08:46:10PM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 08:23:34PM -0500, James McCoy wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 02:16:10PM -0200, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > > I have found the following discussion started by one of the main Fedora > > > Ruby guys, which touches exactly on having the subversion Ruby bindings > > > work under Ruby 2.1: > > > https://github.com/test-unit/test-unit/issues/99 > > > > > > Can you please try the attached patch? I tried to test it myself but for > > > some reason subversion fails to build from source with sbuild here (even > > > the version from the archive - log attached). > > > > Thanks. I came up with a similar patch, with a small modification for > > the failure you noted, and it seems to work. I've also ported the test > > suite to minitest, since that seems (from my limited Ruby knowledge and > > searching over the past few days) to be a preferred test tool. > > > > I'll see what upstream thinks and try to get this resolved in a few > > days, even if it's not what upstream ultimately goes with. > > Except there's another test that still fails when ruby 2.2 is actually > used (unlike in the build log you provided or any of the testing I had > done recently), due to code trying to modify nil which is now frozen, > along with true/false.
do you have the log? nil is actually always frozen, so this is likely something that used to return a String, but now returns nil. > I'm sending a patch upstream for the general test-unit problem, but I > still don't have a solution for the frozen nil problem. subversion is the one pending package with enough reverse dependencies to stop the ruby transition from going on. How important is that one test, and the Ruby bindings in general? Can we have a temporary workaround to allow us to go on with the transition? -- Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>
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