Bug#731465: ecasound: Please update to allow for Ruby 1.8 deprecation

[Gunnar Wolf]

Alessandro Ghedini dijo [Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 07:16:50PM +0100]:
> > Ruby1.8 is scheduled to be removed before the Jessie release. You can
> > apply the trivial patch I am inlining here to make it work under newer
> > Ruby releases (including 1.9.1, which will be Jessie's default).
> > 
> > This patch also drops the transitional libecasound-ruby1.8 package,
> > as, since it was introduced pre-wheezy, it's no longer necessary.
> 
> ruby-ecasound was introduced *in* wheezy, and the transitional package is still
> necessary for proper upgrades from squeeze (not that I expect to be many users
> of the package, let alone in squeeze, but still).

Right — Users upgrading from Squeeze will get to Wheezy (with
pre-wheezy, I meant "during the Wheezy release cycle) and will have
the ruby-ecasound package installed. When they upgrade from Wheezy to
Jessie, the transitional package will no longer be necessary. So, it's
safe to remove it now.

Debian does not support directly upgrading from release x to x+2, so
users upgrading from Squeeze will anyway go through Wheezy.

> > Please note that I did *not* check the package works fine with this
> > change made — It just makes the dependency go away. Several packages
> > are known to use a syntax that clashes with Ruby >= 1.9.1; please test
> > before uploading!
> 
> Looks good to me (at least the tests seem to run fine).
> 
> > +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ruby | ruby-interpreters, ecasound
> 
> Shouldn't it be "ruby-interpreter" (without final 's')?

Oops! Of course it should. Shame on me for suggesting a buggy patch
:-) Glad you checked