[DRE-maint] Bug#722375: Updating the Ruby packaging policy for your package «libposixlock-ruby»

[Gunnar Wolf]

Tomas Pospisek dijo [Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:52:52PM +0200]:
> Hello Gunnar and dear Ruby maintainers,
> 
> I'm currently off, travelling the world. Possibly I will try to
> bring my Ruby package up to speed, but more probably I won't.
> Finding the time and calm, internet and AC current is too much of a
> rare coincidence.
> 
> So please if anybody feels like fixing my package up, the please do
> so, thanks a lot and greets to you all,
> *t

Hi Tomas,

I downloaded your package to take a stab at repackaging it, but found
you had this in your README:

  The upstream posixlock gem has not been ported and doesn't compile
  under ruby 1.9.

   -- Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb at sourcepole.ch>  Tue, 03 Jul 2012

The last time upstream appears to have touched the code is in 2009,
but Web references I found to it seem to be from 2005-2007 (maybe the
http://www.codeforpeople.com/ server was installed in 2009?); the code
is really tied into the C structures of Ruby objects, and I agree with
your comment: It fails to build for 1.9.3.

Now, although this functionality seems important, the package has no
reverse dependencies, and has a very low popcon index. So, I'd suggest
filing a bug for its removal.

It would be best if you could file this bug; otherwise, I can do it,
but please tell me if I should proceed (or, of course, if I should
_not_ do so).

> <rant>
> Also I own a HP 6710 series laptop that contains an AMD Seymour
> Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series discrete gfx chip that aparently can't
> be switched off and completely randomly switches itself on and sucks
> all power out of the batteries, so working off grid over more than
> an hour is practically impossible. A true piece of shit hw.
> </rant>

Ugh. :(
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