[DRE-maint] Bug#596351: ohai is required for Chef

Chris Butler chrisb at debian.org
Sun Dec 19 17:16:46 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 03:39:22PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 14:53 +0000, Chris Butler wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 08:33:01PM -0700, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> > > The JSON gem has a history of issues, and while it seems that 1.1.9 may
> > > otherwise be stable, it is a year old and has a lot of improvements. So
> > > far I have not seen any issues with version 1.4.6, in ohai or otherwise. I
> > I doubt that the Release Team would accept a new upstream version now (nor
> > do I think they would've accepted it a month ago), so that is not really an
> > option.
> 
> fwiw, there was a mention of this on -release a few weeks ago, but
> Joshua never replied to my follow-up
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/11/msg01263.html).

Aha… apologies for not spotting that.

If it's any use, I ran a quick "git bisect" on the upstream source, and
discovered the commit which seems to have fixed the problem:

https://github.com/flori/json/commit/dd06e48aa414674f52e81f9cdc7836b6456c04f8

However, this doesn't apply cleanly to v1.1.9, as it seems the code is now
using a different string buffer implementation for its result. I've not
looked much further to see how easy it would be to backport the change (it
may not be too difficult if the two string buffer implementations have
similar APIs).

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