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

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:44:59AM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote:
> 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?

an error in the regular expression that catches affected packages.
instead of

  .build-depends ~ /ruby.*/

it should be

  .build-depends ~ /ruby|gem2deb/

This was already fixed by the release team and that page should be
updated on the next rebuild.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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