[DRE-maint] Updating ruby-minitar / ruby-archive-tar-minitar

[Markus Frosch]

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Hello guys,
I'm currently reviewing r10k (Puppet software add-on) for Debian.

During that I noticed a package I'd need is only available in a old/different version.

There are 2 gems called minitar:

archive-tar-minitar (https://rubygems.org/gems/archive-tar-minitar)
Version: 0.5.2
Last Release: 2008

minitar (https://rubygems.org/gems/minitar)
Version: 0.5.4
Release: 2012

The second Gem is from different maintainer, but based on the first. There seem to be no problems in terms of compatibility.

What I would suggest is to switch to "ruby-minitar", with a transactional/compat package ruby-archive-tar-minitar.

The compat package would have to ship a gemspec, so that the gem "archive-tar-minitar" can be found by software that references the old gem.

In addition it might be helpful to open bugs against dependent packages, for review.

Would you support or oppose that?

Cheers
Markus Frosch
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markus at lazyfrosch.de / lazyfrosch at debian.org
http://www.lazyfrosch.de

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