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

[Soren Stoutner]

On Thursday, November 20, 2025 11:54:00 AM Mountain Standard Time Jörg-Volker 
Peetz wrote:
> I just wanted to add, that also upgrading the ruby-selenium-webdriver 
package
> from 4.4.0-1 to 4.38.0-1 makes redmine here working again.
> Maybe redmine needs a lower limit for ruby-selenium-webdriver ?

That is an artifact of the fact that ruby-selenium-webdriver is also part of 
the auto-upperlimit-ruby-zip transition.  To see this, open the following link 
and click on the “good” checkbox.

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

Basically, the older version of ruby-selenium-webdriver is sufficient for 
redmine, but you cannot install the necessary version of ruby-zip unless you 
upgrade ruby-selenium-webdriver to a version supported by the current version 
of ruby-zip.

If you are running testing or unstable, apt is smart enough to figure this out 
automatically.  But if you are cherry-picking packages for a stable 
environment, you will need to handle this yourself.

Adding appropriate constraints to debian/control will make redmine appear in 
future transition trackers for changes like these.  It will also prevent it 
from migrating from unstable to testing in an uninstallable way, which 
currently it will do in the next two days, because all of the necessary 
packages can currently only be satisfied in unstable, but Debian doesn’t know 
that.  Note that fixing this in unstable, which I plan to do today, will not 
prevent the migration, because the version in testing needs these constraints 
to work.  But it will fix the problem for the future.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren at debian.org
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