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Bug#946945: Why package this gem instead of using its successors?



Hi Matijs,

On 25/12/19 2:53 pm, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> Hi Utkarsh,
>
> This gem is very old (2009) and unmaintained upstream and it looks like
> its functionality is included in the newer gems unidecoder (2013) and
> stringex (2018). Stringex is actually already in Debian.
>
> Can you explain to me why this gem is being packaged? Is there some gem
> that needs it? It is not clear from the wnpp bug description.

Yikes, sorry for not being more verbose in the bug description.
This is needed by jekyll-import[1].

P.S. There were other dependencies like fastercsv that we cut down and
tried to use the ones in Debian already.


Best,
Utkarsh
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[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-jekyll-import/issues/1


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