Hi, On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:13:52AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 31/10/13 at 11:55 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > Package: how-can-i-help > > Version: 0.7 > > Severity: serious > > > > how-can-i-help now crashes on startup: > > > > $ how-can-i-help > > /usr/bin/how-can-i-help:30: undefined method `home' for Dir:Class > > (NoMethodError) > > Hi, > > That's because ruby1.8 misses Dir.home (it's 1.9+ -specific). > > This is clearly a bug in how-can-i-help, that I will solve by dropping > the requirement of Dir.home. > > But I wonder if we have really explored all the scenarios for the > upgrade to 1.9/2.0. For example, what if: > - user runs wheezy, installs ruby1.8, and how-can-i-help > - user upgrades to jessie. in jessie, ruby1.8 is removed, but user still > has it installed locally > - user upgrades how-can-i-help to a newer version > > If the new version of how-can-i-help still depends on ruby | ruby-interpreter, > the dependency is statisfied by the ruby1.8 package still installed locally. > however, how-can-i-help might not work with ruby1.8, and ruby1.8 is no > longer part of jessie, so it's not obvious as a maintainer that I should > test with it.
I am no ruby guru but as debian defaults to 1.9 for wheezy and jessie, I do not understand why a wheezy+ system uses ruby1.8 by default, except if manually changed with update-alternatives. Should maintainer care when default interpreters are modified? When is the default ruby interpreter updated on a sid intallation? Thanks, Christophe > While this could be solved by having stricter dependencies in > applications, it kinda defeats the purpose of gem2deb if I need to > depend on ruby1.9.1 instead of ruby | ruby-interpreter (and it will > require a package change when moving to ruby2.0). > > What I really need is a way to express (in how-can-i-help): > "I need '/usr/bin/ruby' to point to an intrepreter >= 1.9.1" > > Sounds like a nice mess :( > > Lucas > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
