On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:58:57 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > the new dependency on virtual package rdoc pulls in transitional package ruby.
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 19:29:58 -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > Doing so would presumably help avoid pulling in the "ruby" v4.8 > transitional package by mistake....) [Just to clarify the history of this discussion: >From version 4.6 up through 4.8, the "ruby" package was described as a transitional package (and included the note "It can safely be removed."), implying one would generally want to avoid installing it.... However, starting with v4.9 the package is instead described as a "default version" package -- and thus it does make sense for the rake package to continue to depend on "ruby | ruby-interpreter". (That way, installing rake will pull in the currently-designated default Ruby version if there isn't already some ruby-interpreter installed). ] Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org