On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:05:04 +0200 Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: ruby-kramdown
> Version: 2.3.1-2
>
> Hi,
>
> aptitude refused to upgrade ruby-kramdown initially, because I have
the
> package "kramdown" installed and it has a hard dependency on
> "ruby-kramdown (= 2.3.0-5)".
>
> It seems that the package "kramdown" is no more built by the
> ruby-kramdown source package. This opens a bunch of questions about
this
> questionable change:
>
> * Why is it removed at all?
This was removed in this commit when an older dsc was imported to the
master branch
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-kramdown/-/commit/e940d097c25f7342bb73bfb815c36fc94b2988f1
> * Why is this not mentioned in the according debian/changelog entry?
> * Why is there no transitional package?
So no one noticed this was removed.
> So please either:
>
> * Reinstantiate the kramdown package (my preferred choice), or
> * if you really want to get rid of, at least provide a transitional
> package for the period of one Debian Stable release.
>
> And:
>
> * Mention (potentially retroactively) in the debian/changelog that
and
> why it was removed or at least that it is now (i.e. with a future
> upload) a transitional package plus the reason for that.
>
boutil is planning to reintroduce it.
