[DRE-maint] Bug#685943: ruby-arel: unecessary dependency on build dependencies

[Antonio Terceiro]

Package: ruby-arel
Version: 3.0.2-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

ruby-arel depends on ruby-minitest and ruby-hoe, which are only build
dependencies (development dependencies in rubygems terms), and are not
required in runtime. This forces the installation of unecessary
packages when ruby-arel installaed.

For example, due to #685330, right now installing e.g. rails3 pulls in
ruby1.8 which is pulled by rubygems which is pulled by ruby-hoe, so you
end up ruby1.8 even though it is not actually needed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ruby-arel depends on:
ii  ruby                          4.9
ii  ruby-hoe                      3.0.3-2.1
ii  ruby-minitest                 3.2.0-1
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter]    1.8.7.358-4
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.194-1

ruby-arel recommends no packages.

ruby-arel suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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