[DRE-maint] Bug#796020: reconsidering the removal of ruby-hpricot

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: severity -1 important

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:43:04 -0300 Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:26:06PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > Package: ruby-hpricot
> > Version: 0.8.6-5
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: obsolete
> > 
> > ruby-hpricot is obsolete.
> > 
> > Upstream has this to say:
> > 
> > > # Hpricot is over.
> > > 
> > > After years of lack of a proper maintainer for one of why's jewels, it has been
> > > decided to finally close the book on hpricot. Most users have migrated to alternatives
> > > and there is simply no time or energy to continue with the current codebase.
> > > 
> > > If you feel that you have the time and wish to take it over, I suggest you instead
> > > think about making the hpricot-like API within nokogiri 100% compatible, that is a better
> > > use of your time.
> > > 
> > > But if you still feel like "No damnit, I wanna work on hpricot itself still!" then fork
> > > this repo and start work. Send @evanphx or @nicksieger a message if you feel like you
> > > want to take over the gem name with new releases under the hpricot name.
> > > 
> > > Thanks to \_why for all the fun. We'll never forget it.
> > 
> > If your package depends on ruby-hpricot, please move away from it
> > immediately.
> > 
> > We're not going to have ruby-hpricot in stretch.
> 
> ruby-hpricot has now only 2 reverse dependencies: ruby-ronn and
> ruby-fast-fs. However, the number of packages build-depending on
> ruby-ronn only grows, and is currently at 54¹
> 
> ¹ comitup coquelicot cura-engine dbab elektra foodcritic foremancli
>   gazebo git-extras haproxyctl ignition-math2 ignition-math2
>   ignition-transport ignition-transport jq maim npm pacapt pgloader
>   python-lua qiime r10k ruby-coveralls ruby-ghi seqprep shapelib slt
>   unburden-home-dir vcsh comitup coquelicot dbab elektra foodcritic
>   foremancli gazebo git-extras haproxyctl ignition-math2
>   ignition-transport jq maim npm pacapt pgloader r10k ruby-coveralls
>   ruby-ghi seqprep shapelib unburden-home-dir vcsh pgcharts pycsw
> 
> ruby-hpricot is indeed dead upstream, but so is a lot of software in
> Debian. Also, being dead upstream does not mean not being useful, or
> necessarily being broken.
> 
> So I think we should give up on removing ruby-hpricot until at least one
> of the following happen:
> 
> - ruby-ronn gets rewritten to not use ruby-hpricot (unlikely since ronn
>   is dead upstream itself)
> - something else can replace ruby-ronn and we manage to make reverse
>   (build) dependencies switch to it.
> - ruby-hpricot gets broken by a future update to Ruby in a way that is
>   unfixable and we have no other option.

since I heard no objections, I am therefore downgrading this bug to make
it non-RC.

I will be glad if/when we can remove ruby-hpricot from Debian, but for
now it is just not viable.
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