[DRE-maint] Bug#993251: ruby-kramdown: Package kramdown vanished without notice or transitional package

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:05:04 +0200 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
 > Package: ruby-kramdown
 > Version: 2.3.1-2
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > aptitude refused to upgrade ruby-kramdown initially, because I have 
the
 > package "kramdown" installed and it has a hard dependency on
 > "ruby-kramdown (= 2.3.0-5)".
 >
 > It seems that the package "kramdown" is no more built by the
 > ruby-kramdown source package. This opens a bunch of questions about 
this
 > questionable change:
 >
 > * Why is it removed at all?

This was removed in this commit when an older dsc was imported to the 
master branch
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-kramdown/-/commit/e940d097c25f7342bb73bfb815c36fc94b2988f1

 > * Why is this not mentioned in the according debian/changelog entry?
 > * Why is there no transitional package?

So no one noticed this was removed.

 > So please either:
 >
 > * Reinstantiate the kramdown package (my preferred choice), or
 > * if you really want to get rid of, at least provide a transitional
 >   package for the period of one Debian Stable release.
 >
 > And:
 >
 > * Mention (potentially retroactively) in the debian/changelog that 
and
 >   why it was removed or at least that it is now (i.e. with a future
 >   upload) a transitional package plus the reason for that.
 >

boutil is planning to reintroduce it.