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

[Francesco Poli]

Control: reassign -1 ruby-locale 2.1.0-1
Control: forcemerge 733150 -1


On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:57:38 +0100 (CET) Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:

[...]
> And this is what it reports:
[...]
> 
> Reverting to ruby-locale 2.0.9-1 makes it work again.

Hello Cristian,
thanks for your bug report.

However, it seems to me that the issue you are experiencing is
identical to the already reported #733140, which I have just reassigned
to ruby-locale:
http://bugs.debian.org/733140

> ruby-locale
> could, arguably, be blamed for breaking other packages.

Indeed.
That's why I reassigned the other (identical) bug report to package
ruby-locale.

I am reassigning and merging this bug report too.

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

> 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.

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

Bye. 


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