[DRE-maint] Possible problems in your Debian packages

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:53:07PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 15/07/08 at 15:44 +0000, DDPOMail robot wrote:
> > === libcairo-ruby: (you co-maintain it)
> > = 1 bug(s) that should be fixed for the next Debian release:
> > - #487204 <http://bugs.debian.org/487204>
> >   ruby1.8: object allocation during garbage collection phase
> 
> Last RC bug for us :-)

Working on that.  There is a patch, but I believe upstream might
do a new upstream release rsn.

> > === Packages with a new upstream version according to DEHS:
> >   libdb-ruby  0.6.5  (Debian: 0.6.4-1)
> >   libdb4.2-ruby  0.6.5  (Debian: 0.6.2-3)
> >   libdb4.3-ruby  0.6.5  (Debian: 0.6.2-2)
> >   libdb4.4-ruby  0.6.5  (Debian: 0.6.2-1)
> 
> If someone want to help with the libdb4.?-ruby -> libdb-ruby transition,
> and with updating libdb-ruby to 0.6.5, I would really appreciate help.
> I probably won't have time to do it myself.

What does this involve?  Adding libdb4.X-ruby dummy packages to
libdb-ruby and removing libdb4.X-ruby source from the archive?

Paul

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