Control: tag -1 + pending
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 08:08:50PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 dhelp
> Control: severity -1 serious
> Control: retitle: dhelp: depends on module removed from the Ruby stdlib (dbm)
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 06:09:03PM +0100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > Package: ruby-rubygems
> > Version: 3.3.15-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb from
> > ruby-rubygems causes a LoadError which prevents dhelp from updating
> > succcessfully (when packages register a doc-base entry).
> >
> > This affects all other packages (unrelated to ruby) registering with
> > doc-base, hence marking Severity: important
> >
> > The error message (when installing any packing using doc-base, in this
> > case python-lmfit-doc) is
> >
> > Setting up python-lmfit-doc (1.1.0-1) ...
> > Processing triggers for doc-base (0.11.1) ...
> > Processing 1 added doc-base file...
> > Registering documents with dhelp...
> > :85:in
> > `require': cannot load such file -- dbm (LoadError)
> > from
> > :85:in
> > `require'
> > from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/dhelp.rb:21:in `'
> > from
> > :85:in
> > `require'
> > from
> > :85:in
> > `require'
> > from /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:32:in `'
>
> The issue is that dhelp depends on a module that has been removed from
> the Ruby standard library (dbm). I imagine the dhelp database is just a
> cache and can be rebuilt from scratch on upgrades, so one way to fix
> this would be to migrate to a similar module that is available and
> probably has a similar enough API, like sdbm (ruby-sdbm).
Actually this would invalidate existing databases, creating extra
complications. I have just uploaded a ruby-dbm package to NEW, and made
the necessary adjustments to the dhelp git repository to use it. I will
make an upload when the new package is accepted.
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