[no need to copy me, I read the list] On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 06:13:27PM +0000, Norwid Behrnd wrote: > Thank you for a second opinion on this because I would prefer if `ruby-uri` > were not necessary. > > It is prompted by an earlier discussion upstream[1] and by the observation a > pristine rebuild by > > ```bash > gem2deb mdl > ``` > > yields a d/control file with an entry for `ruby-uri` though there is not an > explicit extra package outside Ruby's standard library. > > The two lead me to think an update of `ruby-mdl` now should include the tests > present on GitHub, but not in the rubygem[2,3] to have strong evidence here. > At present, d/control does not call for `ruby-uri`[4] which both locally and > remotely on salsa is at best is "acceptable" because the test suite is not > used.
No, you don't need a standalone ruby-uri package. As I mentioned before, the standard library already provides it. Even dependencies on `ruby-uri` will be correctly handled. $ grep-aptavail -F Provides -s Package ruby-uri Package: libruby3.3 Package: libruby3.4 If you depend on `ruby-uri`, it will just install ruby itself: ----------------8<----------------8<----------------8<----------------- root@106bb259f328:/# apt satisfy ruby-uri Installing: libruby3.3 Installing dependencies: ca-certificates libjs-jquery rake ruby-net-telnet ruby-webrick unzip fonts-lato libruby ruby ruby-ruby2-keywords ruby-xmlrpc zip javascript-common libyaml-0-2 ruby-csv ruby-rubygems ruby3.3 libffi8 openssl ruby-did-you-mean ruby-sdbm rubygems-integration Suggested packages: apache2 | lighttpd | httpd ri ruby-dev bundler Summary: Upgrading: 0, Installing: 23, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0 Download size: 12.8 MB Space needed: 55.9 MB / 581 GB available Continue? [Y/n] ----------------8<----------------8<----------------8<-----------------
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