Bug#903905: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: Failure when d/config contains XS-Ruby-Versions

[Dominique Dumont]

On Monday, 16 July 2018 15:13:05 CEST you wrote:
> Please find a way to deal with XS-Ruby-Versions 

Currently, XS-Ruby-Versions is allowed if the Maintainer contains "Debian 
Ruby" as in "Debian Ruby Team". It used to be when "section =~ /ruby". (see 
#888949)

On one hand I'd like to avoid cluttering the gui of "cme dpkg edit" for non-
ruby packages. On the other hand, finding a sure way to identify that a 
package is a ruby package is not so easy.

May be I should try something like 

 Maintainer =~ /Debian ruby/i or source =~ /^ruby-/ 

Other ideas are welcome. (except scanning the dependency list which is 
difficult in Config::Model)

> (I have no idea about
> Ruby so I'm not sure whether this is a valid / necessary element).

See #713053

> I
> also wonder whether for instance Vcs fields and Standards-Version could
> be changed in any case (that's why I used cme) even if this kind of
> unknown fields are occuring.

Completely unknown fields are supported. 

The problem is that you have a situation considered as an error by cme: having 
a ruby specific parameter for a non-ruby package.

All the best