[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#819261: ruby-hivex: LoadError: cannot load such file -- _hivex

[Hilko Bengen]

* Christian Hofstaedtler:

> Indeed, the package only installs hivex.rb, but no C extension.
> Also it installs hivex.rb into usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.2.0 without
> declaring a dependency on (lib)ruby2.2.

Damn, that's what one gets if one uses dh_install without
--fail-missing.

Thank you for reporting this. I'll need to get this fixed for jessie
also...

> I've also noticed that in d/control, ruby-hivex has Depends:
> ${python:Depends}, which looks odd.

Right.

> If possible, please use dh_ruby to build + install (it's part of the
> gem2deb package).

I don't think that this would work very well with the autoconf-based
build system.

Cheers,
-Hilko