[DRE-maint] Bug#1121060: version of dependency on ruby-selenium-webdriver has to be adjusted

[Soren Stoutner]

Control: retitle -1 Missing upper-limit constraints in debain/control.

On Thursday, November 20, 2025 3:34:47 AM Mountain Standard Time Jörg-Volker 
Peetz wrote:
> Package: redmine
> Version: 6.0.6+ds-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Soren, dear Debian Ruby Team,
> 
> the upgrade to this version fails since the version of
> ruby-selenium-webdriver redmine depends on, has to be adopted. The error
> message reads
> 
> Could not find compatible versions
> 
> Because every version of selenium-webdriver depends on rubyzip >= 1.2.2, < 
3.0
> and Gemfile depends on rubyzip ~> 3.2.2,
>    selenium-webdriver cannot be used.
> So, because Gemfile depends on selenium-webdriver >= 4.4.0,
>    version solving has failed.
> 
> The version of ruby-selenium-webdriver has to be adjusted in "Depends"
> and the Gemfile of redmine.

I don’t think that is the core of the problem.  The current version of 
selenium-webdriver is 4.38.0, which is satisfied by the >= 4.4.0 constraint.

Rather, I think the cause of the problem is that redmine is caught up in the 
auto-upperlimit-ruby-zip transition, but doesn’t know about it.

https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-upperlimit-ruby-zip.html

I think I am going to place upper-limit constraints in debian control to match 
those in the Gemfile, which should allow Debian to add redmine to the list of 
these types of transitions.

That won’t fix the problem immediately, but it will fix it in the future once 
the version with the upper-limit constraints has migrated to testing.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at debian.org
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