Re: About apt-listbugs and ruby 1.9.x

[Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>]

On 01/04/2012 02:00 PM, Francesco Poli wrote:
> As far as the test-unit library is concerned, it is used in a test
> suite currently run at package build time.
> It was mentioned as one of the libraries dropped from ruby 1.9.x in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2011/06/msg00050.html
> No further investigation has been carried out on this front yet.

test-unit was bundled with Ruby 1.8.  With Ruby 1.9, an alternate 
library, minitest, is bundled instead.  You can still get test/unit on 
1.9 if you install the gem.  The reverse is also true: you can use 
minitest on 1.8 simply by installing the gem.

> I see that Sam Ruby has offered help:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2012/01/msg00012.html
> but he seems to be unable to reproduce the issue:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2012/01/msg00023.html
> I think that this may be explained by the fact that apt-listbugs
> currently forces the use of ruby 1.8.x, through dependencies and with
> the shebang (#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8).
> You'll probably see the crash, as soon as you modify that shebang so
> that apt-listbugs gets interpreted by ruby 1.9.x

I should be able to get the same results by typing "ruby apt-listbugs"?

My first attempt:

  $ ruby /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': 
cannot load such file -- gettext (LoadError)
  	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
  	from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:256:in `<main>'

This library can be installed:

  $ sudo apt-get install libgettext-ruby1.9.1

After installation, it runs, albeit with a few deprecation warnings:

  $ ruby /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv 
will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead.
  /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/gettext/runtime/locale_path.rb:20: Use RbConfig 
instead of obsolete and deprecated Config.
  NOTE: Gem.all_load_paths is deprecated with no replacement. It will 
be removed on or after 2011-10-01.
  Gem.all_load_paths called from 
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/gettext/runtime/locale_path.rb:56.
  NOTE: Gem.all_partials is deprecated with no replacement. It will be 
removed on or after 2011-10-01.
  Gem.all_partials called from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:258.
  NOTE: Gem.all_partials is deprecated with no replacement. It will be 
removed on or after 2011-10-01.
  Gem.all_partials called from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:258.
  E: You need to specify a command.
  Usage: apt-listbugs [options] <command> [arguments]
  Options:

- Sam Ruby