[DRE-maint] Bug#587697: libmemcache-client-ruby1.8: Library unusable as packaged

[Shyamal Prasad]

Package: libmemcache-client-ruby1.8
Version: 1.7.8-1
Severity: grave


sprasad at dallas:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'memcache'
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/../VERSION.yml
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/memcache.rb:24:in `read'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/memcache.rb:24
	from (irb):1:in `require'
	from (irb):1
irb(main):002:0>

Sure enough, around line 24 in the packaged memcache.rb we have

    config = YAML.load(File.read(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../VERSION.yml'))

but VERSION.yml is not included in the package since this is not a gem

sprasad at dallas:~$ dpkg -L libmemcache-client-ruby1.8
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libmemcache-client-ruby1.8
/usr/share/doc/libmemcache-client-ruby1.8/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libmemcache-client-ruby1.8/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/ruby
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/memcache.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/memcache_util.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/continuum_native.rb

I guess everybody uses the gem ;-)

Cheers!
Shyamal

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libmemcache-client-ruby1.8 depends on:
ii  libruby1.8                   1.8.7.249-3 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.

libmemcache-client-ruby1.8 recommends no packages.

libmemcache-client-ruby1.8 suggests no packages.

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