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Re: Please allow the migration of dhelp



On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 13:42:01 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

> Julien Cristau dijo [Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 06:42:35PM +0200]:
> > > Huh?
> > > 
> > > I thought it would be removed already - see #679300,
> > > #676248. Ruby-commandline even fails to fail under Ruby 1.9.x. Its
> > > functionality is fully covered by a module that's part of modern
> > > Rubys' standard library.
> > > 
> > #679300 is about the removal from sid.  Removal from testing won't
> > happen as long as dhelp still depends on it.
> 
> Ok - But, the fact is that in testing you install dhelp, it won't work
> at all as ruby-commandline fails silently under the default Ruby

That's only because somebody decided to change the default Ruby version
after the last minute.

> version. Thus my earlier request to allow for the newer dhelp to
> migrate into testing, removing the dependency on the buggy
> ruby-commandline, and allowing the later to be removed painlessly.

Seems to me the minimal fix for wheezy is to make sure dhelp /
ruby-commandline use ruby 1.8.

Cheers,
Julien

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