Bug#960977: warning: $SAFE will become a normal global variable in Ruby 3.0

[Youhei SASAKI]

Hi,

On Tue, 19 May 2020 12:52:38 +0900,
Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> Hi Youhei,
> 
> On 5/19/20 2:07 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > The safe/taint mechanism was removed from Ruby in version 2.7. It's now
> > a no-op, and in Ruby 3.0 it will cause ruby-netcdf to crash.
> > 
> > For example, you can reproduce the issue with this command:
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> > $ ruby -rnumru/netcdf -e 'puts NumRu::NetCDF.create_tmp'
> > /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/numru/netcdf.rb:144: warning: $SAFE will become a normal global variable in Ruby 3.0
> > #<NumRu::NetCDF:0x0000563aa3714fd8>
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> Since ruby-netcdf looks dead upstream with no new release since 2016,
> should we bother to patch this or just remove the package from the archive?

I'm one of the upstream. I'll make new release ASAP.
Please wait.

Thanks,
Youhei

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