[DRE-maint] Bug#991015: Acknowledgement (cannot execute due to incorrect shebang line)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 09:10:15PM -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote:
> This bug seems to be, in part, due to a potentially (?) broken ruby
> upgrade behaviour. I've been running unstable on this laptop for ~6
> years, but still had
> 
> ii  ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter]  2.1.5-4
> ii  ruby2.2 [ruby-interpreter]  2.2.4-1
> 
> installed as my only ruby interpreters. These are no longer available in
> unstable, and ruby2.1 was last available in:
> 
> ruby2.1    | 2.1.5-2+deb8u3 | oldoldstable | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386
> 
> Will users upgrading from buster to bullseye will encounter a similar
> issue if they've dist-upgraded from jessie to stretch to buster?

The problem is the following in the dependencies:
  Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter, ...

The /usr/bin/ruby symlink is in the ruby package,
the alternative dependency ruby-interpreter is
therefore wrong.

cu
Adrian