Bug#487722: libruby1.8: ruby hangs installation of all packages

2008-06-24 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:58 +0200, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote: > Hi, > > The stacktrace seems to be some problem in some doc-base files. I have > made dhelp more robust to that, and now it handles those without complaining. > I have just uploaded 0.6.10 fixing that. > > However, I'm

Bug#487722: libruby1.8: ruby hangs installation of all packages

2008-06-24 Thread Esteban Manchado Velázquez
Hi, The stacktrace seems to be some problem in some doc-base files. I have made dhelp more robust to that, and now it handles those without complaining. I have just uploaded 0.6.10 fixing that. However, I'm not sure that's the problem you're experiencing. What is happening there is that w

Bug#487722: libruby1.8: ruby hangs installation of all packages

2008-06-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
reassign 487722 dhelp thanks On 23/06/08 at 12:40 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Package: libruby1.8 > Version: 1.8.7-2 > Severity: normal > > > May warrant higher severity: this bug breaks unrelated packages. In > fact, it breaks the installation of any packages at all. However, I > would expect

Bug#487722: libruby1.8: ruby hangs installation of all packages

2008-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I did another aptitude run, and there were some messages but things did not hang up. Here are the messages: Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 3 added doc-base file(s)... Registering documents with dhelp... NoMethodError: private method `gsub' called for nil:NilClass (/usr/lib/ruby/1

Bug#487722: libruby1.8: ruby hangs installation of all packages

2008-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
Package: libruby1.8 Version: 1.8.7-2 Severity: normal May warrant higher severity: this bug breaks unrelated packages. In fact, it breaks the installation of any packages at all. However, I would expect someone else to have reported this if it were a general problem. My aptitude update hung at