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Re: Bug#973731: ITP: ruby-launchy -- helper class for launching cross-platform applications



Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2020, 10:38 -0300 schrieb Antonio Terceiro:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 03:45:34AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:

[ruby-launcher-shim]
> > I missed that. It might be necessary to either update this package to match
> > launchy 2.5.0 or maybe even remove it? I definitely need it for travis. But
> > I
> > will ask FTP masters to hold the package back until we reached a consensus.
> > 
> > Antonio, what do you think? You maintained ruby-launchy-shim.
> 
> when I wrote ruby-launchy-shim, I did it because launchy itself had a
> lot of dependencies, and most if code, just to support other non-Debian
> systems. I don't remember exactly but there was probably other
> compliation that make it so it was easier for me to just write a shim
> that has the same API as the original package and does what is needed on
> Debian.

It now has only one dependency (ruby-addressable).

> I don't really care what happens; if you decide to drop it and replace
> with the real launchy, feel free to go ahead.

I added Provides and Replaces/Breaks fields to ruby-lauchy so both packages can
coexist. 

> Just note that there are a few packages that explicitly depend on -shim:
> 
> $ reverse-depends ruby-launchy-shim
> Reverse-Depends
> * ruby-email-spec
> * ruby-letter-opener

I just built them successfully with ruby-launchy. So maybe we can drop ruby-
launchy-shim in the future.

Regards, Daniel
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