Re: bundler and build-essential (was Fwd: Re: migrating to Debian gitlab)

[Christian Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

* Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> [160215 21:15]:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:53:35PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>
> > Sent: 2016, ഫെബ്രുവരി 15 10:05:08 PM IST
> > To: Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: migrating to Debian gitlab
> > 
> > [... Skipped other discussion...]
> > 
> > >> (Btw., off topic: I haven't done much with ruby, but gitlab pulls in
> > >> build-essential via gitlab Depends: bundler and bundler Recommends:
> > >> build-essential. While this is Recommends, so you can avoid it if
> > >> you want to, it still seems weird to me that build-essential is
> > >> pulled in by default implicitly via gitlab...)
> 
> I think bundler does not _need_ to depend on build-essential, or
> ruby-dev.

Which is why it doesn't :-)

> I made the following changes to the packaging:
> 
> Avoid installing toolchain on end user systems
> http://deb.li/rAQ7
> 
> mention build-essential, ruby-dev and sudo for development
> http://deb.li/3I29d
> 
> I plan to upload those, together with a new upstream version, during the
> weekend if nobody objects.

This breaks the "use bundler standalone" usecase. Given that noone
ever reads descriptions or documentation, please remove my name from
Uploaders: if you upload this.

Best,
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