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

[Michael Prokop]

* Stig Sandbeck Mathisen [Mon Dez 05, 2011 at 02:58:40 +0100]:
> 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.

Any news here? Would be great if there'd be a way to use puppet with
ruby 1.9 with wheezy.

regards,
-mika-
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