[DRE-maint] Bug#792361: redmine: dpkg --configure broken when installing ruby packages

[Antonio Terceiro]

hello Praveen,

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 07:58:08PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 July 2015 06:33 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > This has nothing to do with redmine, but with the fact that
> > ruby-jquery-rails was upgraded to a version that breaks the redmine
> > dependency checking.
> 
> Can I upload ruby-jquery-rails3 to fix the situation?

this would remedy the original problem temporarily, but will create
another one. It took us more than 1.5 years to get rid of ruby-rack1.4¹

¹ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ruby-rack1.4

I would rather revert ruby-jquery-rails to the previous version using an
upstream version number such as 4.0.4.REALLY.3.1.2, and work on doing a
_planned_ update of all of these moving parts, staging the changes in
experimental and being sure of what we are doing before doing it in
unstable.

> jquery-rails 4.0.4 require railties >= 4.2 as well.

I think we _need_ to start checking this type of thing _before_ updating
packages blindly ... this is not the first nor the second time this type
of issue happens.

> What is the plan for
> updating to rails 4.2?

No specific plans yet, but we need to do it.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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