[DRE-maint] Bug#1094561: ruby-vcr: FTBFS: ERROR: Test "ruby3.3" failed: cannot load such file -- rack/handler/webrick

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:24:34 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org> wrote:
> On 05/04/25 at 18:51 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > VCR needs to be updated to support rack 3 / rackup.
> > 
> > However, we are stuck with version 5 of VCR, since more recent versions
> > switched to a non-free license (see #984689), and upstream issues
> > https://github.com/vcr/vcr/issues/959 
> > https://github.com/vcr/vcr/issues/804
> > https://github.com/vcr/vcr/pull/805
> > 
> > It's clear the maintainer is not going to change their mind.
> > 
> > So, there are two paths foward: fix VCR 5.x to support rack3 (and fix it
> > again when future changes will break it again), or remove
> > it from Debian.
> > 
> > Removing it would require patching software that uses VCR (mostly in
> > test suites).  I could identify:
> > 
> > nanoc
> > ruby-coveralls
> > ruby-graphlient
> > ruby-html-proofer
> > ruby-mixlib-install
> > ruby-octokit
> 
> I took another look: it looks like the only reason why ruby-vcr is a key
> package is because of ruby-coveralls' build-dependency, which is only
> needed for the test suite. So I patched ruby-coveralls to drop it.
> 
> Once ruby-coveralls 0.8.23-4 migrates to testing, ruby-vcr should no
> longer be a key package, and should get removed from testing.

I just did the same with nanoc.
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