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

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thursday 16 July 2015 10:58 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
>> 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.

Or would be better if we embed jquery-rails 3 with redmine like we did
bootstrap-sass 2 for diaspora? Since we will need jquery-rails sometime
soon.

Can this be even made a policy? "If a single application is blocking a
library update the older version can be embedded in that application".

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