[DRE-maint] Bug#882163: ruby-ronn: unable to satisfy cross Build-Depends

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Axel,

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:34:47PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> I would have been nice if this would have been done in _advance_
> instead of getting to hear in a just fixed FTBFS bug report that my
> package now FTBFS due to today's ruby-ronn upload. (c.f.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901567#35; thanks
> Dmitry for that hint!)

I was aware that it would break stuff, but I saw little alternatives to
just making things break:
 * Filing the bugs before adding the ronn package would be annoying, as
   those bugs would be unfixable.
 * Having ruby-ronn temporarily depend on ronn would introduce a
   dependency cycle.

So the best option seemed like temporarily breaking a limited number of
packages with a trivial fix.

> IMHO this kind of surging ahead is not different from an uncoordinated
> library transition. :-/

In a sense, yes. Next time, better package libraries properly.

Helmut