Apologies for the delay; I forgot to subscribe to the bug and therefore missed your response.
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:27:51PM -0700, Joshua Timberman wrote: > Ohai is required for Chef. Is this a localization issue that can be fixed > upstream in Ohai? Well chef was not in lenny either, and has a similarly low popcon count. It could be considered for removal from squeeze as well, especially at this late stage in the squeeze release. 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 > hope that Debian can make an exception for getting the latest version into > Squeeze. As the package maintainer for ohai, I don't think that patching > ohai to workaround this bug is appropriate. 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. One suggestion, made by Neil Williams, was to patch ohai to output a useful error message when it encounters an invalid character. In other words, replace the fairly meaningless exception with a useful error message, detailing what the problem is (invalid utf-8 character) and the file/line of the problem. IMO this would make the bug non-RC, as it should make it obvious to the user how to fix the problem. Is that something that would be quick and easy for you to do? I had a quick look at the ohai source to see if I could provide a patch, but I'm not familiar enough with the source or Ruby itself to work out where to modify it. If the above is not possible, I return to my previous suggestion of removing ohai & chef from squeeze. Once wheezy is up and running, there should be no problem getting the new libjson-ruby package in. There's always the option of providing packages via backports.debian.org once squeeze is released. -- Chris Butler <chr...@debian.org> GnuPG Key ID: 4096R/49E3ACD3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
