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

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hey all,

libmmap-ruby is a package that seemed to have the highest urgency for
the gem2deb transition, as it has a very high popcon score.  However,
the transition gave a lot of troubles:  upstream has been gone for over
6 years, tests fail, it doesn't work for Ruby 1.9.1.
Praveen has tried to fix it but got stuck, the same holds for me.

> 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.

We just figured out that the high popcon is due to the high popcon of
libruby-extras (the have the same installation statistics and graph),
which used to depend on it in Squeeze.  I expect that the package is
actually not used at all, so I would like to drop the package
completely.  If some application comes up that needs some mmap library
(there are others nowadays), we'll have a look at these.
Any objections?

Paul

P.S. Sorry Pavreen, your work will get lost, but the archive is better
for it. :)

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