[DRE-maint] Bug#806191: ruby-fast-xs: Missing Breaks or Conflicts with ruby-hpricot

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 02:31:18PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 11/25/2015 01:59 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> > according to 
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=fast_xs.
> so&mode=filename&suite=unstable&arch=any
> >
> >
> > 
> sh4 is the only architecture where ruby-hpricot ships that file.
> 
> It affects m68k as well though:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2015-11-23 00:38
> ./usr/lib/m68k-linux-gnu/ruby/vendor_ruby/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2015-11-23 00:46
> ./usr/lib/m68k-linux-gnu/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.2.0/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      9476 2015-11-23 00:46
> ./usr/lib/m68k-linux-gnu/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.2.0/fast_xs.so
> 
> > 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby-hpricot&arch=m68k&ve
> r=0.8.6-5&stamp=1448236109
> 
> No idea why the database doesn't list the file.
> 
> > there is something clearly broken with it, because the fast_xs.so 
> > file is removed during the tests (debian/ruby-tests.rb), instead
> > of in debian/rules after the build; was the original ruby-hpricot 
> > build on sh4 done with tests disabled?
> > 
> > Also, ruby-hpricot is deprecated and we want to remove it from 
> > unstable as soon as possible. If you can "fix" this by rebuilding 
> > it on sh4, please do it, because I don't expect to gain any 
> > maintainance other than removal.
> 
> Yes, we usually build with "nocheck nobench" on slower architectures.
> That shouldn't really have any effects on the resulting debs. Please
> make sure other ruby packages don't show similar behaviour as to avoid
> such issues in the future.

this is not a common practice at all, seems to have been done in this
package as a quick hack without much thought.

> I will rebuild ruby-hpricot on m68k and sh4 with test enabled in the
> mean time to have this issue resolved.

cool

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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