[DRE-maint] Bug#860747: dh_ruby: please inject versioned dependency on ruby metapackage

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 ruby-all-dev
Control: retitle -1 ruby-all-dev: include upper bound on generated ruby dependencies

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 03:53:57PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Hi, Antonio.  Thanks for the quick response!
> 
> Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > ruby-fast-xs is broken on m68k because it is a very old binary, from before
> > this was implemented, and AFAICT it can't be built anymore because something
> > else is not available.
> 
> The ruby-fast-xs version in play at the time (now superseded by a +b3
> build against ruby 2.3) had, per
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ruby-fast-xs&arch=m68k&ver=0.8.0-3%2Bb2&stamp=1456486333&raw=0,
> 
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.3), libgmp10, libruby2.2 (>= 2.2.0~1), ruby (>= 1:2.2)
> 
> However, there was (and still is) no upper bound on the ruby
> metapackage's version, allowing for mismatches.

Ah fair enough, I missed that bit. These dependencies are specified in
ruby-all-dev, so I am reassigning accordingly. It should be just a
matter of including the << dependency there.
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