On Tue, 01 May 2018 12:17:17 +0200 Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > > Hello, > > I intend to orphan the ruby-setup package. It is technically > team-maintained by the Debian Ruby team, but the other listed uploader > hasn't touched the package for a very long time, so I prefer to mark > the package as orphaned. It is used by some package for their build > procedure. > > Kind regards, > > Vincent > > The package description is: > setup.rb is an installation tool widely used for Ruby > programs. You can use it to distribute Ruby code you wrote > and be sure your users won't have difficulties installing > it. currently only two packages depend on ruby-setup to build: ruby-tioga and ruby-facets. given that setup.rb is deprecated for a very long time -- the Ruby community completely moved to rubygems -- IMO we should: - migrate those packages away from ruby-setup - remove support for ruby-setup from gem2deb - remove ruby-setup from the archive
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