Hi, From: Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:37:38 +0100
> 2012/1/15 Kubo Hiroshi <h-k...@geisya.or.jp>: >> Hi, >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> in Debian it is not responsibility of individual packages, but generaly of >>> a packaging system. >>> >>> Unfortunatelly what you are asking is impossible to achieve. I believe it's >>> not a bug, but a failed ruby concept of havimg versioned dependencies but >>> no SONAMEs. Therefore there can be only one rack package installed at the >>> time. >> >> Hmm. >> >> * The original rails insists it requires rack 1.0.1. >> >> * Actually a loss of data has occurred with the rack 1.1.0. >> >> So, the "only one rack package" should be the one whose version is 1.0.1, >> isn't it? > > No. There's whole ecosystem of packages in Debian depending on libruby-rack: > > camping > ironruby-utils > libactivesupport-ruby1.8 > libactivesupport-ruby1.9.1 > libapache2-mod-passenger > libmerb-core-ruby1.8 > librack-ruby > libramaze-ruby1.8 > libramaze-ruby1.9.1 > libsinatra-ruby1.8 > libsinatra-ruby1.9.1 > puppetmaster > thin1.8 > > which one you would decide to determine the version of rack? libactivesupport-ruby1.8 libactivesupport-ruby1.9.1 > The standard packaging policy is to have latest stable and it > usually works well. But with ruby it's becoming a nightmare > since it's not uncommon that API change even between minor > and patch releases :-/. > >> And to achieve it, I wonder is there another way. >> >>> >>> I believe it's the source code in the package which needs fixing and not >>> the versioned depends. >> >> I didn't figure out which source code you are referring to. >> >> I just want to overcome the loss of data, and am willing to be convinced :-) > > The source code which is causing the data loss, e.g. probably the redmine's. No, I didn't find any problematic code in redmine. > Anyway the downgrade is not going to happen in the stable distribution since > it's against all policies Debian has. But small self contained fix in > the redmine > (or rails if the bug is there) may go through. I understand downgrading is difficult. Still, my opinion is the cause is the version mismatch. But I wish anybody can fix the problem by changing redmine, if possible. --- Kubo Hiroshi <h-k...@geisya.or.jp> Blog: http://cryptotaenian.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
