Bug#992348: mapserver: please re-enable build of ruby-mapscript package

[Tomas Pospisek]

Source: mapserver
Version: 7.6.4-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi Debian GIS maintainers, hi Bas!

tldr: would it be possible to re-enable the ruby-mapscript package
build?

Extended explication: requiring a packaged version of ruby-mapscript
on Ubuntu 20.04 I today basically reverted commits [1] and [2] and
ruby-mapscript built just fine. A quick test showed ruby-mapscript
to work. Then I did the same thing on bullseye and again,
ruby-mapscript build fine.

Questions:

* would it be possible to start building the ruby-mapscript package again?

* I see commit [1] that says "Build Ruby MapScript only for default version",
  but it doesn't say why builds for other ruby versions are being dropped.
  What was the reason for dropping the build of ruby-mapscript for the
  various existing Ruby versions?

* half an hour later there's a commit [2] that drops ruby-mapscript
  alltogether. I couldn't find a log of the respective FTBS. But
  maybe it doesn't matter any more since it does seem to build just
  fine now.

So would it be possible to revert [1] and [2]? Or should I fork the
project on Salsa and file a PR?

Either way: *thanks a lot for maintaining mapserver*!!!

Greetings,
*t

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/mapserver/-/commit/45f6f67e4272122d9d9fa0c49f247d68690c659a
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/mapserver/-/commit/8d14c0fe55e33ef1922ac529e23cbb04776afd9a


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled