[DRE-maint] Bug#888118: homesick: FTBFS on ruby2.5: test fail: got: ("GEM_SKIP")

[Chris West (Faux)]

Source: homesick
Version: 1.1.6-1
Severity: important
User: debian-ruby at lists.debian.org
Usertags: ruby2.5

Dear Maintainer,

This package fails to build against ruby2.5. Soon, there will
be a transition to ruby2.5, and this package will FTBFS in sid.

There may be some details on the wiki about common problems:
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Ruby25Transition

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│ Run tests for ruby2.5 from debian/ruby-tests.rake                            │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

RUBYLIB=/build/homesick-1.1.6/debian/homesick/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby:. GEM_PATH=debian/homesick/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all:/root/.gem/ruby/2.5.0:/var/lib/gems/2.5.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rubygems-integration/2.5.0:/usr/share/rubygems-integration/2.5.0:/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all ruby2.5 -S rake -f debian/ruby-tests.rake
/usr/bin/ruby2.5 /usr/bin/rspec --pattern ./spec/\*_spec.rb
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Failures:

  1) Homesick::CLI open returns an error message when the $EDITOR environment variable is not set
     Failure/Error: after { home.destroy! }

       {"DEB_HOST_GNU[...]4", "LC_MESSAGES"=>"C"} received :[] with unexpected arguments
         expected: ("EDITOR")
              got: ("GEM_SKIP")
        Please stub a default value first if message might be received with other args as well. 
     # ./spec/homesick_cli_spec.rb:8:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

  2) Homesick::CLI open returns an error message when the given castle does not exist
     Failure/Error: after { home.destroy! }

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73 examples, 2 failures

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/homesick_cli_spec.rb:743 # Homesick::CLI open returns an error message when the $EDITOR environment variable is not set
rspec ./spec/homesick_cli_spec.rb:751 # Homesick::CLI open returns an error message when the given castle does not exist

/usr/bin/ruby2.5 /usr/bin/rspec --pattern ./spec/\*_spec.rb failed
ERROR: Test "ruby2.5" failed. Exiting.
dh_auto_install: dh_ruby --install /build/homesick-1.1.6/debian/homesick returned exit code 1
debian/rules:15: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

Full build log:
https://rbuild.fau.xxx/2018-01-23/homesick.log