[DRE-maint] Bug#794657: reupload 3.6.0?

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:28:08PM +0900, Youhei SASAKI wrote:
> Dear Cédric,
> 
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 02:13:15 +0900,
> Cédric Boutillier <boutil at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is affecting packages (build)depending on pry, including
> > cucumber. Since ruby-slop has a unique dependency/build-dependency
> > (pry) and upstream is not ready yet to upgrade to the v4 of ruby-slop
> > (which seems to be a complete rewrite), can we reupload the 3.6.0
> > version, with a 4.2.0+really3.6.0-1 version number in the mean time?
> 
> I need ruby-slop >= version 4 for other project, thus I'll intend to
> package named "ruby-slop3". After upload this package, I'll modify pry
> depends on ruby-slop3.

herm, since pry seems to be the only reverse dependency, I would instead
embed a copy of slop 3 into pry instead of adding a new package. The
last time we added this type of versioned package it took a while to get
rid of it (ruby-rack1.4).

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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