Bug#987745: apt-listbugs: please clarify, what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for

On Sat, 01 May 2021 19:41:24 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: [...] > Could you perhaps ask the previous maintainer why he originally made a > Depends on it? I really doubt he can remember, after some 15 years... I took a look at the git repository log, to see whether I could spot an

Bug#987745: apt-listbugs: please clarify, what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for

On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 19:35 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > Before I can demote it to a suggestion, I need to be sure that no use > case is harmed. > There are a plethora of special situations (such as the strangest > proxy > setups, and so forth...), hence it's not easy to be sure... > Could you

Bug#987745: apt-listbugs: please clarify, what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for

On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 00:06 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > [#792639]: Ah I even made some comments to that in the very beginning... completely forgot about it. > Since it's only a recommendation (and not a strong dependency), you > can > remove or purge it,

Bug#987745: apt-listbugs: please clarify, what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:59:42 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 18:31 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > I am under the impression that ruby-httpclient is more sophisticated > > than the basic net/http Ruby library. It should support more features > > (but I don't

Bug#987745: apt-listbugs: please clarify, what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for

On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 18:31 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > But the fact is: I am not sure. > ;-) > I am under the impression that ruby-httpclient is more sophisticated > than the basic net/http Ruby library. It should support more features > (but I don't remember which ones...). > This also

Bug#987745: apt-listbugs: please clarify, what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:12:13 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: [...] > Hi. Hello! Thanks for your interest in apt-listbugs. > > It would be nice if the package's description could tell what ruby-httpclient > is needed/used for, so that people can decide,

Bug#987745: apt-listbugs: please clarify, what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for

Package: apt-listbugs Version: 0.1.35 Severity: wishlist Hi. It would be nice if the package's description could tell what ruby-httpclient is needed/used for, so that people can decide, whether they want it or not. Thanks, Chris.