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Re: Debian Ruby Policy transition and apt-listbugs



On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:56:46 +0200 Cédric Boutillier wrote:

[...]
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:35:05PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > I am looking at the page [1] that describes the current status of the
> > Debian Ruby Policy transition.
[...]
> > [1] http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/wheezy/details.html
[...]
> > I see that apt-listbugs is listed among the packages using the old
> > policy.
[...]
> > If there's anything else I can do, in order to help the Debian Ruby
> > Policy transition moving forward, please tell me and I will try to
> > cooperate!
> 
> Currently, the packages in this list are obtained from the following UDD
> query:
[...]
> I am afraid that this query is not really accurate and that the list
> still contains some false positives, as I believe that packages
> depending on ruby1.8 will be matched with the query. See for example
> subversion.

Ah, that explains a lot of awkward things...
Thanks for your kind reply!

> 
> I see that you list as depency libzlib-ruby1.8, which is a virtual
> package provided by libruby1.8, already listed. You can probably just
> drop this one.

Thanks for the suggestion: this was the only open issue left, when we
talked about apt-listbugs back on April...

I'll drop the dependency on that virtual package soon.

> Other than that, I think that apt-listbugs is compliant
> to the new policy, contrary to what the list says.

Thank you very much for confirming.
Rest assured that your assistance is really appreciated!

> 
> Team members, would it be more correct to replace in the query
>   p.depends ~ '.*ruby1.8.*'
> by something like
>   p.depends ~ 'lib.*-ruby.*'
> ?

Probably, as far as I can see.
It would be great if the false positives could be removed from the
list...

Thanks for trying to improve the situation.
Bye.

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