Re: RFS: ruby-uuid

[Abhijith PA <abhijith@teknik.io>]

On Friday 18 January 2019 01:30 AM, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:08 PM Pirate Praveen
> <praveen@onenetbeyond.org <mailto:praveen@onenetbeyond.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2019, ജനുവരി 17 5:53:19 PM IST, Abhijith PA <abhijith@teknik.io
>     <mailto:abhijith@teknik.io>> wrote:
>     >Hi Praveen.
>     >
>     >On Tuesday 15 January 2019 07:51 AM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On 2019, ജനുവരി 14 10:34:39 PM IST, Abhijith PA
>     <abhijith@teknik.io <mailto:abhijith@teknik.io>>
>     >wrote:
>     >>> Hi.
>     >>>
>     >>> On Monday 14 January 2019 10:16 PM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
>     >>>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 07:42:26AM +0530, Abhijith PA wrote:
>     >>>>> Hi Utkarsh
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> On Saturday 12 January 2019 12:55 AM, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
>     >>>>>> Hi,
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> I've updated the Debian package of the Ruby gem *uuid*. The
>     >package
>     >>> was
>     >>>>>> tested on sbuild and was successfully built. It was also lintian
>     >>> clean.
>     >>>>>> I've updated the package in the salsa repo which may be found at
>     >>>>>> https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-uuid
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> This was listed under "Patch Updates" task for diaspora, which
>     >may
>     >>> be found at
>     >>>>>> https://git.fosscommunity.in/debian-ruby/TaskTracker/issues/133
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> Please consider to review and upload it.
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> There is no change in upstream source other than the person just
>     >>> bumped
>     >>>>> version in gemspec file. If you can loosen version in its reverse
>     >>>>> dependencies there is no need of an upload. :)
>     >>>>
>     >>>> This sounds like doing a few pointless uploads to avoid a single
>     >one.
>     >>> :)
>     >>>
>     >>> In this case, I don't think so.
>     >>>
>     >>> -a
>     >>
>     >> Maintaining a patch, especially for a package like diaspora and
>     >gitlab, which already has many patches we cannot avoid, is more work
>     >than a simple update.
>     >
>     >Its just using current version of ruby-uuid in control file of the
>     >package diaspora. Isn't it. I don't understand the need of patch.
> 
>     We run `bundle install --local` in postinst to verify we have all
>     required versions and if we don't update a package, we will need to
>     patch Gemfile as well.
> 
> 
> That's some unecessary work.
> Isn't it better to upload rather?

Yes, I will upload ruby-uuid then.

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