[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#651025: Bug#651025: puppet: should depend on ruby instead of ruby1.8

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Richard Hurt <rnhurt at gmail.com> writes:

> Please change the dependencies for all the Puppet packages to depend
> on ruby and not ruby1.8. According to James Turnbull, Puppet has
> supported 1.9.2+ since 2.7.0.
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/hZetUfVrfFo/ZE_7N5bVurUJ

There are a number of ruby library dependencies left to convert to the
new ruby build system (gem2deb) so they support running under 1.8.7 and
1.9.2+ until we can do that, unfortunately.

WHen packaging with gem2deb, using the update-alternatives system to
switch between rubies works fine, if you look away from the
non-converted dependencies.

However, I am uncertain as to the status of gem2deb in ubuntu. In the
interest of keeping changes between distributions minimal, the packaging
switch is being held back until it is actually useful.

-- 
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm at debian.org>