On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:38:28AM (+0100), Markus Frosch wrote: > Hello guys, > I'm currently reviewing r10k (Puppet software add-on) for Debian. > > During that I noticed a package I'd need is only available in a old/different version. > > There are 2 gems called minitar: > > archive-tar-minitar (https://rubygems.org/gems/archive-tar-minitar) > Version: 0.5.2 > Last Release: 2008 > > minitar (https://rubygems.org/gems/minitar) > Version: 0.5.4 > Release: 2012 > > The second Gem is from different maintainer, but based on the first. There seem to be no problems in terms of compatibility. > > What I would suggest is to switch to "ruby-minitar", with a transactional/compat package ruby-archive-tar-minitar. > > The compat package would have to ship a gemspec, so that the gem "archive-tar-minitar" can be found by software that references the old gem. > > In addition it might be helpful to open bugs against dependent packages, for review. > > Would you support or oppose that? Hum, and it's seems a bit more complicated https://github.com/atoulme/minitar/issues/3 (but the upstream doesn't have any release…) But Ok for me (about your proposal). According codesearch.d.n, it seems pretty easy indeed (only 4 packages) https://codesearch.debian.net/results/ruby-archive-tar-minitar * rhc * ruby-docker-api * subtle * ruby-librarian Let me know if I can help! Cheers, Seb
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