Hi, I looked into upgrading webmock to a more recent version. The current version in Debian is 1.22.6-1, with a number of versions released since then[1]. I tried to package version 3.0.1, but unfortunately, there has been some incompatible changes, and the following reverse-build-dependencies fail to build with 3.0.1:
[1] https://rubygems.org/gems/webmock/versions berkshelf gist ruby-flowdock ruby-gemnasium-gitlab-service ruby-influxdb ruby-license-finder ruby-mixlib-install ruby-omniauth-crowd ruby-rest-client ruby-ridley (out of 31 reverse b-deps, it's not too bad) I wonder what we would do about such "core" development packages. Upgrading the leaf packages first does not work because newer versions tend to require newer core packages, so it's a chicken-and-egg problem. One possible strategy could be to: - upload the new version of webmock to unstable - with a versioned Breaks: on the broken packages (so that it does not migrate to testing) - file RC bugs given those packages now FTBFS in unstable According to a crude hack, our top 40 packages in terms of reverse b-deps are: gem2deb 1113 rake 505 ruby-rspec 403 ruby-minitest 114 ruby-test-unit 76 ruby-rack 74 ruby-mocha 66 ruby-json 54 rails 54 ruby-nokogiri 53 ruby-multi-json 41 ruby-rack-test 38 ruby-ronn 36 ruby-sqlite3 34 bundler 33 ruby-webmock 32 ruby-rspec-its 31 ruby-fog 28 asciidoctor 27 ruby-http 25 ruby-simplecov 24 ruby-fog-core 24 ruby-faraday 24 ruby-coveralls 23 ruby-omniauth 22 ruby-shoulda 21 ruby-addressable 21 ruby-thor 20 ruby-mime 20 ruby-mime-types 19 ruby-i18n 19 ruby-timecop 17 ruby-sinatra 17 ruby-tilt 15 ruby-fog-json 15 ruby-ffi 15 ruby-eventmachine 15 ruby-builder 15 ruby-build 15 And the DMD status page for those would be: https://udd.debian.org/dmd/?email1=&nosponsor1=on&email2=&nosponsor2=on&email3=&packages=gem2deb+rake+ruby-rspec+ruby-minitest+ruby-test-unit+ruby-rack+ruby-mocha+ruby-json+rails+ruby-nokogiri+ruby-multi-json+ruby-rack-test+ruby-ronn+ruby-sqlite3+bundler+ruby-webmock+ruby-rspec-its+ruby-fog+asciidoctor+ruby-http+ruby-simplecov+ruby-fog-core+ruby-faraday+ruby-coveralls+ruby-omniauth+ruby-shoulda+ruby-addressable+ruby-thor+ruby-mime+ruby-mime-types+ruby-i18n+ruby-timecop+ruby-sinatra+ruby-tilt+ruby-fog-json+ruby-ffi+ruby-eventmachine+ruby-builder+ruby-build&ignpackages=&format=html#todo Lucas
