[DRE-maint] Bug#517112: rcov workaround for rexml not applied to ruby 1.8.7

[Bryan McLellan]

Package: rcov
Version: 0.8.1.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch


rcov includes a workaround for broken rexml.write, but it detects ruby
1.8.6 and misses 1.8.7 causing errors like:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/formatters/pretty.rb:131:in `[]': no implicit
conversion from nil to integer (TypeError)

The upstream bug [1] hasn't had any response in six months.

[1] http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=21627&group_id=1750&atid=6802

-- Patch / Workaround:

diff -ru rcov-0.8.1.2/lib/rcov/report.rb rcov-0.8.1.2.new/lib/rcov/report.rb
--- rcov-0.8.1.2/lib/rcov/report.rb 2007-11-22 02:58:11.000000000 -0800
+++ rcov-0.8.1.2.new/lib/rcov/report.rb 2009-02-24 21:01:41.000000000 -0800
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 rescue LoadError
 end

-if RUBY_VERSION == "1.8.6" && defined? REXML::Formatters::Transitive
+if ( RUBY_VERSION == "1.8.6" || RUBY_VERSION == "1.8.7" ) && defined?
REXML::Formatters::Transitive
     class REXML::Document
         remove_method :write rescue nil
         def write( output=$stdout, indent=-1, trans=false, ie_hack=false )

-- See also:

http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/2008/03/24/rexml-dynamic-typing-lose/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rcov depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libruby1.8                    1.8.7.72-3 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  ruby1.8                       1.8.7.72-3 Interpreter of object-oriented scr

rcov recommends no packages.

rcov suggests no packages.

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