[DRE-maint] Bug#723589: Bug#723589: ruby-nokogiri: nokoiri missing nokogiri/nokogiri.rb

[Cédric Boutillier]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:47:16PM +0100, Alex Young wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 21:48 +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote:
> > On 9/17/13, Alex Young <alex at blackkettle.org> wrote:
> > >> Ruby 1.8 is scheduled to be removed, so it's not supported by current
> > >> ruby-nokogiri package. Please, use ruby 1.9.1 or 2.0 instead.
> > >
> > > If it's not supported, shouldn't 1.8 be removed as a dependency?
> > 
> > ruby-nokogiri doesn't depend on ruby1.8, it depends (among others) on
> > ruby-interpreter, provided by ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1 and ruby2.0.


> Maybe I don't understand properly what's going on here.  That's a bug,
> surely?  If ruby-nokogiri doesn't work and isn't supported, under
> ruby1.8, how is that a valid dependency?

ruby1.8 is not a direct dependency of ruby-nokogiri.
ruby-nokogiri depends on ruby | ruby-interpreter. 

ruby provides the default version of the ruby interpreter in Debian,
which has been ruby1.9.1 since wheezy.

The only marginal case when things can go wrong is the case when
a user has ruby1.8 installed but not ruby. Then the dependencies for
ruby-nokogiri will be statisfied since ruby1.8 provides
ruby-interpreter. However, having ruby1.8 stop providing
ruby-interpreter is planned.

Cheers,

Cédric


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