[DRE-maint] Bug#649984: rake: rake/rdoctask

[Hilko Bengen]

Package: rake
Version: 0.9.2.2-1
Severity: serious

While trying to build a development version of libguestfs where I have
building Ruby bindings enabled, I ran into the following error:

,----
| WARNING: 'require 'rake/rdoctask'' is deprecated.  Please use 'require 'rdoc/tas
| k' (in RDoc 2.4.2+)' instead.
|     at /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rake/rdoctask.rb
| rake aborted!
| uninitialized constant Gem
`----

Following that advice (which I also found by searching the web for the
error message) got me nowhere, however:

,----
| rake aborted!
| no such file to load -- rdoc/task
`----

... which isn't that surprising as it's not available for Ruby:

,----
| $ ruby --version
| ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]
| $ apt-file search /rdoc/task
| libruby1.9.1: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rdoc/task.rb                        
`----

Is there an obvious workaround that I am missing?

Cheers,
-Hilko

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rake depends on:
ii  ruby [rdoc]                   4.8        
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter]    1.8.7.352-2
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.0-1  
ii  rubygems                      1.8.10-1   

Versions of packages rake recommends:
ii  zip  3.0-4

rake suggests no packages.

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