Bug#676114: Ruby help needed (Was: Bug#676114: wordnet: FTBFS: debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII))
Andreas Tille
andreas at an3as.eu
Tue Jun 5 17:55:55 UTC 2012
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:35:28PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Sounds like you made a mistake, I'm afraid. :-(
My barrier to revert this mistake is low. If there is no simple solution
in three days (OK, I'll be offline weekend+Monday - so there is some
additional delay) - I'll kick the binary and the problem is solved.
> This is a general problem that might be shared usefully with a wider
> audience - developers should try hard to *not* write build scripts or
> maintainer scripts in their favourite language-of-the-week. It makes
> packages that much harder to maintain in general, whether within the
> existing team, replacement maintainers, the QA team, etc...
Fully ACK.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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