Re: Untransitioned Ruby Packages

2012-07-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 09, 2012 11:00:12 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: ... > OK. Thanks. I can file the RM bug for that one. ... For completeness, based on Russ Albrey's advice, that was a one line fix, so I'm just going to fix the FTBFS and I'll let someone who can better explain why it should be removed

Re: Untransitioned Ruby Packages

2012-07-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, July 09, 2012 08:08:37 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Scott Kitterman writes: > > OK. Thanks. I can file the RM bug for that one. > > > > In general though should these be forced to build with ruby 1.8 (since > > they generally have ruby1.8 in the binary name or should they be coerced > >

Re: Untransitioned Ruby Packages

2012-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman writes: > OK. Thanks. I can file the RM bug for that one. > In general though should these be forced to build with ruby 1.8 (since > they generally have ruby1.8 in the binary name or should they be coerced > into producing a package that works with ruby1.9, but is called ruby1.

Re: Untransitioned Ruby Packages

2012-07-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
; > new > > Ruby package policy and sent through New? Should they be removed? > > In general, I think untransitioned Ruby packages should be "tolerated" > for Wheezy, but not for Wheezy+1. That is, if a package that was not > transitioned and it's still worthy

Re: Untransitioned Ruby Packages

2012-07-09 Thread Antonio Terceiro
> weren't in freeze, these sorts of things would be easy enough to fix, but > since > we are ... > > What's the plan for packages like this? Should they be updated for the new > Ruby package policy and sent through New? Should they be removed? In general, I th

Untransitioned Ruby Packages

2012-07-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
It looks like there are more than a few Ruby packages that aren't update for the new packaging scheme and still expect Ruby 1.8 as the default. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676092 is an example. If we weren't in freeze, these sorts of things would be easy enough to fix, but