[DRE-maint] RFS: ruby-hiera 0.3.0-1, ruby-hiera-puppet 0.3.0-1

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

Hi Patrick,

* Patrick Ringl <Patrick.Ringl at gmx.de> [120618 17:48]:
[..]
>  
> > * ruby1.8: Now that ruby1.9.1 is the default ruby, it might not be a
> > good idea to introduce a package that doesn't work on 1.9.x,
> > especially when the executables say '/usr/bin/env ruby' (which
> > likely will resolve to ruby1.9.1 on a standard installation).
> > Upstream has a ticket[1] that 0.3.0 doesn't properly work on 1.9.x,
> > and indeed you seem to have disabled builds for 1.9.1.
> > Maybe it's better to package hiera 1.0.0rcX which is supposed to
> > work on 1.9.x as well.
> > 
> 
> I am fully aware of the 0.3.0 incompatibility with ruby 1.9.x (in
> the original RFP which I split to two ITPs I mentioned this) -
> therefor I disabled the 1.9.x build and used ruby1.8 as 'Depend'.
> The 'shebang' is no problem, gem2ruby (or rather dh_ruby) will
> cover this and rewrite the shebang properly (this is a lot cleaner
> handling than using a patch imho, since it'll be done
> automagically).

Right; I missed that because I temporarily modified it to build for
all Rubies.
 
> I am not sure if packaging the release-candidate makes more sense
> - personally I'd really love to hear different opinions about it.
> If we may find a common understanding (especially the one
> sponsoring it) I can also package the release candidate in the
> first place and thus (re)gain ruby1.9.x functionality (which
> regarding wheezy makes absolutely sense).

Well, could you do a quick check if the current RC will work with
the puppet version in Debian?

CC'ed mika who would upload your package.


  -ch

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