[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#735453: libsbml5-ruby1.8: build-depend on default ruby/comply with Ruby policy

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jonas,

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 08:26:24PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote:
> I have had a look at the build system, the library do not use the standard ruby extension
> "extconf.rb" build method. Building the sbml ruby binding for two ruby version seems to
> be very hard to do.
> 
> Since there is a very low popcon of ruby bindings and has got no rdepends, I suggests to
> remove libsbml5-ruby1.8 from the package and archive.

That's perfectly OK for me but this means removing *all* ruby binding.
You are talking above about two versions.  Is there any evidence that
you could create a package with newer Ruby version?

> Perhaps upstream would fix that, and we can re add the ruby bindings later.

I wonder whether somebody could send some "informed" hint to upstream
since I do not understand the migration path at all.

Kind regards

        Andreas. 

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