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

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 02:20:34PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:49:38PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> > And I tried changing the second "-lib" entry to ruby-lib (it does not
> > mean anything, this is a random example)
> > 
> > and I get the same offending term: ruby lib^@ruby-lib
> > attaching the output, for ref
> > 
> > So it looks like more than one entry in "require_paths" outputs a
> > "binary" gemspec which is troublesome.
> > 
> > Nilesh
> 
> This sounds like a bug in rubygems itself.

On the other hand, this seems to be done on purpose.

  def to_ruby
    require_relative 'openssl'
    mark_version
    result = []
    result << "# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-"
    result << "#{Gem::StubSpecification::PREFIX}#{name} #{version} #{platform} #{raw_require_paths.join("\0")}"
    result << "#{Gem::StubSpecification::PREFIX}#{extensions.join "\0"}" unless
      extensions.empty?

However, trying to load such gemspec should work fine:

$ ruby -e 'puts Gem::Specification.new { |s| s.version = "1"; s.require_paths = ["foo", "bar"] }.to_ruby' > /tmp/g
$ file /tmp/g
/tmp/g: data
$ ruby -e 'puts Gem::Specification.load("/tmp/g")'
#<Gem::Specification name= version=1>

Praveen, can you share the exact error that you got originally?
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