[DRE-maint] Bug#651503: rake: dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:58:57 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> the new dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby.

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 19:29:58 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> Doing so would presumably help avoid pulling in the "ruby" v4.8
> transitional package by mistake....)

[Just to clarify the history of this discussion: 

>From version 4.6 up through 4.8, the "ruby" package was described as a
transitional package (and included the note "It can safely be
removed."), implying one would generally want to avoid installing
it....

However, starting with v4.9 the package is instead described as a
"default version" package -- and thus it does make sense for the rake
package to continue to depend on "ruby | ruby-interpreter". (That way,
installing rake will pull in the currently-designated default Ruby
version if there isn't already some ruby-interpreter installed).
]
								Nathan