[DRE-maint] Bug#945334: Jekyll should not depend on its plugins

[Daniel Leidert]

Package: jekyll
Version: 3.8.3+dfsg-6
Severity: important

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Jekyll currently depends on some of its plugins, e. g. ruby-jekyll-feed.
But this leads to two unwanted results, which can be quite troublesome.

I was recently trying to update ruby-jekyll-feed to version 0.13.0, which
introduced a new feature. Due to jekyll dependening on it the old version
was installed on the system too, leading to unwanted test results and
build failures. After I replaced the ruby-jekyll-feed package with an
empty meta-package (to fulfill the dependencies of jekyll), the build went
fine. But as long as jekyll depends on its plugins, this situation will
occur as soon as tests depend on new features which are not available
in the uploaded/installed package.

The second issue is that actually the plugins depend on jekyll. But
this creates a circular dependency if jekyll depends on them too
(see #940291).

I'd like to reuest (permission) to remove these dependencies. The plugins
declare, that they enhance jekyll. Jekyll should probably suggest them.
Maybe the plugins can provide the virtual jekyll-plugin package and jekyll
suggests this package then?

Regards, Daniel


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages jekyll depends on:
ii  bundler                     1.17.3-3
ii  ruby                        1:2.5.2
ii  ruby-addressable            2.7.0-1
ii  ruby-classifier-reborn      2.2.0-1
ii  ruby-colorator              1.1.0-3
ii  ruby-em-websocket           0.5.1-2
ii  ruby-i18n                   1.5.3-1
ii  ruby-jekyll-coffeescript    1.2.2-2
ii  ruby-jekyll-feed            0.13.0~1-1
ii  ruby-jekyll-gist            1.5.0-2
ii  ruby-jekyll-paginate        1.1.0-3
ii  ruby-jekyll-sass-converter  1.5.2-1
ii  ruby-jekyll-watch           2.2.1-1
ii  ruby-kramdown               1.17.0-1
ii  ruby-launchy-shim           2.3.0.1
ii  ruby-liquid                 4.0.3-1
ii  ruby-mercenary              0.3.6-1
ii  ruby-mime-types             3.2.2-1
ii  ruby-pathutil               0.16.1-1
ii  ruby-pygments.rb            1.2.0-4
ii  ruby-rdiscount              2.1.8-1+b5
ii  ruby-redcarpet              3.4.0-4+b1
ii  ruby-rouge                  3.13.0-1
ii  ruby-safe-yaml              1.0.5-1
ii  ruby-toml                   0.2.0-3
ii  xdg-utils                   1.1.3-1

Versions of packages jekyll recommends:
pn  ruby-mysql      <none>
pn  ruby-sequel     <none>
pn  ruby-sequel-pg  <none>

jekyll suggests no packages.

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