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Re: Bug#734156: how-can-i-help: "no such file to load -- debian_version" after upgrade of ruby-debian package



Hi Francesco, Lucas, list,

* Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> [140105 16:44]:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 17:26:31 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > The bug report below is interesting. The user has ruby1.8 installed, that
> > provides ruby-interpreter. As a result, h-c-i-h Depends' line is satisfied:
> > Depends: ruby | ruby-interpreter, ruby-debian, ruby-json
> > 
> > However, since ruby-debian no longer has support for ruby1.8, h-c-i-h can't use
> > ruby1.8.
> 
> I seem to have the same exact problem with apt-listbugs:
> http://bugs.debian.org/734233
> http://bugs.debian.org/734256
> 
> > 
> > I'm not sure of how to address this situation.
> 
> Nor am I...   :-(

IMO the proper solution is to uninstall ruby1.8.
One of the involved packages will have to force removal of ruby1.8,
possibly the ruby package, but I'm not sure if this is the correct
choice.

How was this handled for previous interpreter version transitions?


    Christian
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