[DRE-maint] Bug#730915: ruby-ihelp: FTBFS: Hard dependency on ruby1.8

[David Suárez]

Source: ruby-ihelp
Version: 0.4.5-3
Severity: serious
Tags: jessie sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20131128 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> make[1]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
> dh_auto_install
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb.rb:17: warning: setting Encoding.default_external
>   Entering dh_ruby --install
> install -d /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-ihelp/usr/bin
> install -D -m755 /«PKGBUILDDIR»/bin/ihelp_reindex.rb /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-ihelp/usr/bin/ihelp_reindex.rb
> install -d /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-ihelp/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
> install -D -m644 /«PKGBUILDDIR»/lib/ihelp.rb /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-ihelp/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/ihelp.rb
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb.rb:52:in `system': can't convert nil into String (TypeError)
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb.rb:52:in `run'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:138:in `run_tests_for_version'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:129:in `block in run_tests'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:128:in `each'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:128:in `run_tests'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:72:in `install'
> 	from /usr/bin/dh_ruby:69:in `block (2 levels) in <main>'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1360:in `call'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1360:in `block in parse_in_order'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:in `catch'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:in `parse_in_order'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1341:in `order!'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1432:in `permute!'
> 	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1453:in `parse!'
> 	from /usr/bin/dh_ruby:73:in `<main>'
> Rewriting shebang line of /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/ruby-ihelp/usr/bin/ihelp_reindex.rb
>  -I/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/test_runner.rb
> dh_auto_install: dh_ruby --install /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/tmp returned exit code 1
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 1

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/ftbfs-logs/2013/11/28/ruby-ihelp_0.4.5-3_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.