[DRE-maint] Bug#515708: liblocale-ruby: package must be kept out of testing

Luk Claes luk at debian.org
Tue Feb 17 06:59:11 UTC 2009


Antonio Terceiro wrote:

> Using this library (actually, setting the LC_NUMERIC part of the locale)
> breaks several Ruby applications because of the way Ruby (at least 1.8
> version) implements printing of floating point numbers.
> 
> It also conflicts with libgettext-ruby (see #470798). So at least until
> we can find a solution for these problems (or decide to remove this
> package from Debian), this package must not go into a release.

Should the current package in testing be removed? If so please request
its removal on the debian-release mailing list.

Cheers

Luk






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