[DRE-maint] Bug#986254: gem2deb creates gemspec file as a binary file for ruby-magic-static gem

[Pirate Praveen]

On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 22:42:26 +0530 Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
 > Package: gem2deb
 > Version: 1.4
 >
 > Since the gemspec file has some binary data quilt is failing to 
create
 > a patch. Attached is the generated gemspec file. I had to manually
 > remove the offending characters using gedit and add it as
 > debian/gemspec for the build to work.
 >
 > I'm not sure if it is really gem2deb issue or an upstream issue.
 >

This looks like a gem2deb issue as the binary character is added again 
to the gemspec file in binary package even though I manually removed it 
in gedit as added it as debian/gemspec

This is the offending line that makes creating patch impossible.

# stub: ruby-magic-static 0.3.5 ruby lib\00lib