Re: Backporting ruby 2.7 for gitlab

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 00:22, Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:47, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 06:06:56PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > I don't really care if you include it in fasttrack.
>
> As people started reporting more bugs, I decided to add ruby 2.7 to 
> fasttrack.
>
> Some issues that popped up,
>
> ruby-msgpack needs gem2deb >= 1.0 to build with ruby 2.7 (possibly 
> true for all native gems). Should I add this minimum version in the 
> master branch?
>
> While building node-bootstrap, I found this error,
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems.rb:275:in `find_spec_for_exe': can't 
> find gem bundler (= 2.1.4) with executable bundle 
> (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
>
> So it looks to me ruby2.7 should have a tightened Depends on 
> ruby-bundler here.

rdoc is failing for 3 packages in the same way with error,

rdoc --op rdoc --main README.rdoc --title "pg: The Ruby Interface to 
PostgreSQL" lib/ ext/*.c README.rdoc
/usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems.rb:275:in `find_spec_for_exe': can't find 
gem rdoc (>= 0.a) with executable rdoc (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/2.7.0/rubygems.rb:294:in `activate_bin_path'
	from /usr/bin/rdoc:23:in `<main>'

https://git.fosscommunity.in/debian-ruby/TaskTracker/-/issues/166 has 
the current status