On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 01:03:47AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> the libruby2.x packages ship special versions of some gems. Also in Ruby 2.7
> parts were split out into gems and we already packaged them separately. So the
> gem is available from libruby2.7 and ruby-<gem>. But libruby actually provides
> at least a version of the gem and might in some cases be sufficient enough to
> fulfill a depency. IMHO the libruby2.7 package for example should have:
>
> Provides: ruby-benchmark (= 0.1.0), ruby-bigdecimal (= 2.0.0), [..], ruby-rexml
> (= 3.2.3), [..], ruby-yaml (= 0.1.0), ruby-zlib (= 1.1.0)
>
> IMHO the perl team does the same (e.g. check out perl-base) and it actually
> seems rigth to me that we do this too.
>
> So for example we wouldn't have to fiddle with ${ruby:Depends} in rubocop. A
> dependency on ruby-rexml would then be fulfilled by either libruby2.7 or ruby-
> rexml (which I'm currently packaging).
>
> What are your thoughts?
I think this is a good idea.
Are you willing to do it? If yes just do it, or if not, please open a
bug report so it doesn't get lost.
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