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. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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