[DRE-maint] Repeated package: libnet-sftp-ruby, libnet-sftp2-ruby

[Gunnar Wolf]

Hi,

Trying to clean up so that libnet-ssh2-ruby can migrate into testing¹,
I found it was complaining because there are still some depending
packages which have a ruby1.9 binary package. One of them is
libnet-sftp2-ruby. 

Now, this is a repeated package - There is also libnet-sftp-ruby,
which has the same contents (up to the package description!):

$ debdiff libnet-sftp2-ruby1.8_2.0.2-1_all.deb libnet-sftp-ruby1.8_2.0.3-1_all.deb
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]

Files in second .deb but not in first
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/doc/libnet-sftp-ruby1.8/README.rdoc
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/doc/libnet-sftp-ruby1.8/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/doc/libnet-sftp-ruby1.8/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/doc/libnet-sftp-ruby1.8/copyright

Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/doc/libnet-sftp2-ruby1.8/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r--  root/root   /usr/share/doc/libnet-sftp2-ruby1.8/copyright

Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
Depends: [-libnet-ssh2-ruby1.8, ruby1.8-] {+libnet-ssh-ruby1.8 (>= 2.0.0)+}
Description: [-Ruby implementation of the SFTP protocol-] {+pure ruby module that emulates an sftp client+}
 {+.+}
{+ FEATURES/PROBLEMS:+}
{+   * Transfer files or even entire directory trees+}
{+     to or from a remote host via SFTP+}
{+   * Completely supports all six protocol versions+}
{+   * Asynchronous and synchronous operation+}
{+   * Read and write files using an IO-like interface+}
Homepage: [-http://net-ssh.rubyforge.org/-] {+http://rubyforge.org/projects/net-ssh/+}
Installed-Size: [-280-] {+212+}
Maintainer: [-Christopher Lunsford <binarymutant at gmail.com>-] {+Tatsuki Sugiura <sugi at nemui.org>+}
Package: [-libnet-sftp2-ruby1.8-] {+libnet-sftp-ruby1.8+}
[-Replaces: libnet-sftp-ruby1.8-]
{+Provides: libnet-sftp-ruby, libnet-sftp-ruby2+}
Source: [-libnet-sftp2-ruby-] {+libnet-sftp-ruby+}
Version: [-2.0.2-1-] {+2.0.3-1+}

I am reporting a bug on ftp.debian.org requesting libnet-sftp2-ruby's
removal. libnet-sftp-ruby is an older package (i.e. has existed in our
archive for longer) and seems to be more up to date regarding its
maintenance status. As soon as I have a bug number assigned, I will
reply to this message so it can be followed up, or in case you want
this _not_ to happen.

Greetings,

¹ http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=libnet-ssh2-ruby

-- 
Gunnar Wolf • gwolf at gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244
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