Control: tag -1 + wontfix On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 11:51:22PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Package: gem2deb > Version: 1.7 > Severity: wishlist > > should we really honor <= constraint in gemspecs? in ruby-google-fog > upstream wants fog-core <= 2.1.0 it will never be satisfied in debian > > because 2.1.0-1 >= 2.1.0 and we have 2.1.0-3.1 in archive > > we could either ignore or may be detect the current version in the archive > (it will require a rebuild if dependency change)
In cases like this, IMO the gemspec needs to be patched to drop such dependency. Even if we did ignore it and didn't represent that with a corresponding << constraint in debian/control, the dependency check will still fail during the build unless the gemspec is patched.
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