[DRE-maint] Bug#829254: asset:precompile error when updating diaspora to 0.5.9.1

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:18:09PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> [will drop debian-ruby from further updates]
> 
> On Wednesday 06 July 2016 09:07 PM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > I was able to successfully install 0.5.5.1 in unstable but 0.5.7.1 in
> > experimental is failing with same error. So it could be either new code
> > in diaspora or one of the changed dependencies that is causing error. I
> > will try to reproduce the error in unstable by adding new dependencies
> > in experimental once by one. If you know a better way, let me know.
> > 
> 
> I tracked down the issue to handlebars_assets. After updating
> handlebars_assets to 0.23.0, diaspora 0.5.5.1 is also failing with the
> same error.
> 
> So I replaced ruby-handlebars-assets deb package with handlebars_assets
> gem and it is also working.

This is a very shitty way of making things work. So your approach is,
instead of fixing the Debian package, adding an embedded copy of the
upstream sources?
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