[DRE-maint] Just curious: why is 'ruby-bdb' not part of the ruby-1.8 removal transition?

[David Witbrodt]

I am a Debian user, not DD or DM, but I am watching 2
remaining packages on Sid that require ruby1.8:

    dhelp
    ruby-bdb


I was just cleaning up some web browser bookmarks, and
rediscovered an old link to

    http://release.debian.org/transitions

Realizing that the Ruby changes were underway, I clicked
on the link for "ruby1.8-removal",


    http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/ruby1.8-removal.html

where I see 'dhelp' listed, but not 'ruby-bdb'.  I can see that
there is a dependency on libruby1.8:

    $ # apt-cache depends ruby-bdb
    ruby-bdb
      Depends: libc6
      Depends: libdb5.1
      Depends: libruby1.8
     |Depends: ruby
      Depends: <ruby-interpreter>
        ruby2.0
        ruby1.8
        ruby1.9.1


I was just curious about why ruby-dbd is missing from the
transition page?  Is it an oversight?  Is the package deprecated?


Thanks,
Dave W.