Re: Ruby help needed (Was: Bug#676114: wordnet: FTBFS: debian/wn-for-goldendict.rb:465: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII))
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:08:24AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
>
> I see you have already patched the script.
At first thanks to thsoe people who quickly provided patches. Hoewever,
I decided to follow the hint to Build-Depend on ruby 1.8 because in this
case we not only know that the script works without errors but we also
can quite safely assume that the result is the same as we had before.
Otherwise some more intensive tests would have been needed.
> Sorry for my later
> response: I'm very busy these days: I'm trying to change my job.
> I will able to do something in week or two. Please don't drop packages
> in the time :)
I just uploaded 3.0-28 which fixes all important bugs. IMHO there is no
real pressure to update it before freeze (rather the contrary - I'd like
to see this package migrating to testing before another upload is done).
In general I would really prefer a script written in Perl or Python in
other words: I fully subscribe what Steve said about favourite
language-of-the-week. If this is not possible in a reasonable time
frame please update it to the new default ruby version and test it
carefully. Please be aware that in similar future cases I might always
consider droping the goldendict package as a fallback solution.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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