[DRE-maint] Bug#655444: Bug#655444: migrate libmmap-ruby to gem2deb based packaging

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hi!

Sorry that it took me so long to get back to your mail.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:51:12PM +0530, Praveen A wrote:
> 2012/1/11 Paul van Tilburg <paulvt at debian.org>:
> I tried a bit, but I don't think I will be able to finish it :(
> 
> I have asked help from upstream
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=29498&group_id=8350&atid=32304

Since there have not been any changes since 2005, and no replies on your
bug reports, I assume upstream is very much dead.  I also wonder why
mmap has such a high popcon, as it has no reverse depends at all.

Maybe we should look for a different implementation and drop this
package?  The fact that the "mmap modify"-test fails, worries me a bit. 
The fact that it doesn't work for Ruby 1.9.x also doesn't help!

Cheers,
Paul

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