Bug#888949: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: recognize X{S, B}-Ruby-Versions field for packages depending on ruby, not only ruby section

Dominique Dumont dod at debian.org
Wed Apr 4 18:03:20 BST 2018


On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:01:33 +0100 =?utf-8?Q?C=C3=A9dric?= Boutillier 
<boutil at debian.org> wrote:
> The spectrum of ruby packages in Debian became wider some of the
> packages, though they use gem2deb and make use of these variables, are
> not in the ruby section of the archive. Such an example is nanoc, a
> static website generator (and thus in the web section).

Makes sense.

> Running cme fix dpkg-control on nanoc results in a no-op since the
> variable XS-Ruby-Versions is not recognized.
> Could you please widen the criteria for packages for which these fields are 
recognized?
> (like those depending on ruby or rather build-depending on gem2deb?)

How about basing this decision on the Maintainer field ? (which would probably 
be more reliable than basing the decision on the presence of a dependency)

All the best



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