[DRE-maint] Bug#1019732: apt-listbugs: undefined method `default' for " # returns password\n":String

[Antonio Terceiro]

Control: reassign -1 apt-listbugs

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 06:39:35PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 ruby 1:3.0+1
> Control: affects -1 + apt-listbugs
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:40:41 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > What you saw seems to be another case where some text from the source
> > (a line taken from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/aptlistbugs/logic.rb, in
> > this instance) is treated as a String by the Ruby interpreter and its
> > `default' method is invoked. But the String class has no `default'
> > method, which causes the error.
> > 
> > This seems to happen sporadically and cannot be easily reproduced.
> > 
> > I cannot understand what's going on.
> > I am more and more persuaded that this bug report should be reassigned
> > to another package (probably package ruby), in order to ask for an
> > investigation by people more knowledgeable than me...
> 
> 
> Dear Debian Ruby Team,
> I am reassigning this [bug] to package ruby, since a couple of users
> are experiencing awkward and sporadic behaviors that I really cannot
> understand and do not seem due to the code of apt-listbugs or of the
> libraries.
> 
> [bug]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1019732>
> 
> Could you please investigate these sporadic issues?
> Refer to the [bug] log for more detailed information.
> 
> Thanks for your time and dedication!

I'm sorry but this bug report assumes an unsupported configuration:

>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')

This is not supportable at all.

Plus:

> Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
[...]
> ii  ruby            1:3.0+1

Ruby 3.0, which is explicitly mentioned in the bug report as being used,
was just temporarily in bookworm as an intermediate step between 2.7
(bullseye) and 3.1 which is the version that is actually to be released
with bookworm. One cannot really support a package that is not even in
Debian anymore, or to a system that mixes random versions of packages
that were once in testing.

Unless you are able to reproduce this in a supported configuration
(either stable or testing, but not something random in between), this is
not a valid bug report. It's also not OK to reassign it to the Ruby
interpreter, since there is no evidence of this actually being a bug in
it, or even in a supported version of Ruby.
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