On 31/10/13 at 11:55 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Package: how-can-i-help > Version: 0.7 > Severity: serious > > how-can-i-help now crashes on startup: > > $ how-can-i-help > /usr/bin/how-can-i-help:30: undefined method `home' for Dir:Class > (NoMethodError)
Hi, That's because ruby1.8 misses Dir.home (it's 1.9+ -specific). This is clearly a bug in how-can-i-help, that I will solve by dropping the requirement of Dir.home. But I wonder if we have really explored all the scenarios for the upgrade to 1.9/2.0. For example, what if: - user runs wheezy, installs ruby1.8, and how-can-i-help - user upgrades to jessie. in jessie, ruby1.8 is removed, but user still has it installed locally - user upgrades how-can-i-help to a newer version If the new version of how-can-i-help still depends on ruby | ruby-interpreter, the dependency is statisfied by the ruby1.8 package still installed locally. however, how-can-i-help might not work with ruby1.8, and ruby1.8 is no longer part of jessie, so it's not obvious as a maintainer that I should test with it. While this could be solved by having stricter dependencies in applications, it kinda defeats the purpose of gem2deb if I need to depend on ruby1.9.1 instead of ruby | ruby-interpreter (and it will require a package change when moving to ruby2.0). What I really need is a way to express (in how-can-i-help): "I need '/usr/bin/ruby' to point to an intrepreter >= 1.9.1" Sounds like a nice mess :( Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
