[DRE-maint] Bug#1128556: ruby-minitest 6.0.x is an alpha release that breaks rails < 8.0

[Simon Quigley]

Hi Soren,

Thanks for the bug report. I agree with your recommendations. Responses inline.

On February 20, 2026 7:29:32 PM CST, Soren Stoutner <soren at debian.org> wrote:
>Package: ruby-minitest
>Version: 5.26.1-1
>Severity: grave
>Justification: renders package unusable
>X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-alpha at lists.debian.org, Simon Quigley <tsimonq2 at debian.org>
>User: debian-alpha at lists.debian.org
>Usertags: alpha
>
>Simon,
>
>I noticed that you recently uploaded ruby-minitest 6.0.x to unstable.
>The 6.0.x series is an alpha release with major breaking changes.
>
>https://github.com/minitest/minitest/blob/master/History.rdoc
>
>It is not compatible with ruby-rails < 8.0.

I was actually able to get Rails to pass with Minitest 6. Upstream I'm not sure they'll support it, but a patch was presented.

>https://github.com/minitest/minitest/issues/1040
>
>This update is causing the autopkgtests of the majority of dependencies to fail.
>
>https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ruby-minitest
>
>As Debian currently has rails 7.2.3, I would recommend we upload
>ruby minitest 6.0.1+really5.27.0 to unstable and 6.0.1+really6.0.1
>to experimental.  I don't think that Debian is ready yet for ruby-rails 8.x.

This is done now. I was forced to disable tests for the 6.0.1+really5.27.0-1 since it uses the previous version of Minitest to run tests, so a followup upload is needed. I'll do that tomorrow.

>Redmine, at least, isn't.  It currently needs exactly what Debian has (7.2.3).
>
>https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/redmine/-/blob/debian/latest/Gemfile?ref_type=heads#L5
>
>As a side note, Redmine is now entangled in three transitions:
>
>auto-upperlimit-ruby-sqlite3
>auto-upperlimit-ruby-mail
>auto-upperlimit-ruby-rack
>
>My recommendatin is that we prevent any further transitions unless absolutely necessary
>until we can resolve these three.

Agreed. Fortunately there shouldn't be much more there.

Thanks for your attention to this,
Simon Quigley
tsimonq2 at debian.org