Bug#733110: wordnet: Please migrate to Ruby 2.0/1.9

[David Suárez]

El Martes, 28 de enero de 2014 14:35:37 Andreas Tille escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> Dmitry E. Oboukhov has injected some Ruby 1.8 code into the wordnet
> packaging.  I personally do not speak Ruby and thus can not fix the
> problem in an other way than simply droping the goldendict-wordnet
> binary package (its data package is created in this way).
> 
> Since Dmitry has not (yet) respondet to this bug report I would like
> to ask the Ruby team to find a patch for the problem in the build
> system that fixes the following:
> 
> 
> WARNING: sentidx.vrb format error: ["pet%2:35:00::"]
> debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:300:in `initialize': undefined method `times'
> for "\x01":String (NoMethodError) from debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:158:in
> `new'
>         from debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:158:in `get_data'
>         from debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:648:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
> from debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:647:in `each'
>         from debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:647:in `block in <main>'
>         from debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:644:in `foreach'
>         from debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:644:in `<main>'
> 
> 
> If I do not get any help I need to go the unfortunate route to kick
> goldendict support again.

The code it's trying to convert an hexadecimal string to an integer.

line 296      -> @w_cnt = [data[3]].pack('H2')[0]
changes to -> @w_cnt = data[3].hex

Please, check if the generated files are the same :)

David