[DRE-maint] Bug#1055352: ruby3.1: bootstrapping issue

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: ruby3.1
Version: 3.1.2-7
Severity: important

Hello,

libruby3.1 depends on ruby-sdbm, but this is an arch:any package, which
build-depends on gem2deb, which build-depends on libruby3.1, so we have
a bootstrap issue when creating a new Debian port.

Can we at some point drop the ruby-sdbm dependency? So that
bootstrapping ruby/gem2deb and the ruby packages can be bootstrapped
seamlessly on new ports?

(ATM I don't see another way than either cross-building (which is
tricky), or temporarily creating a fake ruby-sdbm package).

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable-proposed-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ruby3.1 depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.37-12
ii  libcrypt1             1:4.4.36-2
ii  libgmp10              2:6.3.0+dfsg-2
ii  libruby3.1            3.1.2-7
ii  rubygems-integration  1.18
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.13.dfsg-3

Versions of packages ruby3.1 recommends:
ii  fonts-lato    2.015-1
ii  libjs-jquery  3.6.1+dfsg+~3.5.14-1

ruby3.1 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Samuel
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