[DRE-maint] Bug#733149: apt-listbugs: breaks after ruby-locale 2.0.9-1 -> 2.1.0-1 upgrade

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, Francesco Poli wrote:
>
> > There are a few more bugs (which render the package unusable, for me)
> > listed on the http://bugs.debian.org/apt-listbugs.  Notable: 730822,
>
> Bug #730822 is tagged as "pending": it will be fixed in the next upload
> (which will happen as soon as I find a little time to finalize
> apt-listbugs version 0.1.12).

Sounds good.

> In the meanwhile you may manually fix the issue as explained in
> http://bugs.debian.org/730822#17

I obviously missed that :(  I'll try it in a jiffy...
Alright.  That seems to work :)  Thanks.

> > 725672.  Another ruby package, ruby-soap4r, is blamed for the 725672
> > trouble.
>
> Bug #725672 is a ruby-soap4r issue, as you correctly noticed.
> Unfortunately, I don't have the time to study ruby-soap4r internals and
> investigate the issue in the hope to devise a fix.
> Please cooperate with ruby-soap4r maintainers to find a solution, if
> you are able to help.

Unfortunately, my ruby fu isn't that strong :)

> > It's a bit messy situation right now.  Any chance of sorting this out
> > soon?  apt-listbugs is quite useful to me.  I'd hate to loose it.
>
> I can understand, but you should be able to use apt-listbugs itself to
> work around the issues: after downgrading ruby-locale to version
> 2.0.9-1, you may use apt-listbugs to pin it to that version until this
> bug is fixed.

Already done something like that.  I've put apt-listbugs on hold.

> For the two other bugs, please see the above described suggestions.

Done.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian