[DRE-maint] Bug#721574: ruby-gettext: undefined method force_encoding... during apt-listbugs

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo:
> calling aptitude [] runs apt-listbugs that fails with
> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/mo.rb:46: undefined method
> `force_encoding' for "\225\004\022\336":String (NoMethodError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16:in
>         `require'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16
>         from
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14:in `require'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19:in `require'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19
>         from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274:in `require'
>         from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274

Oh crap… my bad.

gettext 3.0 dropped support for Ruby 1.8. But given this is still our
default interpreter, its reverse dependencies are likely to fail.

Given the following:

$ git grep 'respond_to?' upstream/2.3.9 | grep -v bindtextdomain
upstream/2.3.9:lib/gettext/runtime/mo.rb:    if "".respond_to?(:force_encoding)
upstream/2.3.9:lib/gettext/runtime/mo.rb:    if "".respond_to?(:encode)
upstream/2.3.9:lib/gettext/tools/parser/erb.rb:      if src.respond_to?(:encode)
upstream/2.3.9:lib/gettext/tools/parser/ruby.rb:      if source.respond_to?(:encode)
upstream/2.3.9:lib/gettext/tools/parser/ruby.rb:      return nil unless source.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
upstream/2.3.9:lib/gettext/tools/xgettext.rb:        if string.respond_to?(:encode)
upstream/2.3.9:test/gettext-test-utils.rb:    return unless string.respond_to?(:force_encoding)
upstream/2.3.9:test/gettext-test-utils.rb:    if string.respond_to?(:encode)
upstream/2.3.9:test/run-test.rb:$KCODE = "utf8" unless "".respond_to?(:encoding)

Trying to re-introduce compatibility with Ruby 1.8 is probably doable,
but this might be a little flacky.

Any opinions?

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