Dear Praveen, On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 01:20:18PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> I think was uploaded to experimental because we could not really > determine if it will break ruby-celluloid-io or not. But we were not > able to get ruby-celluloid-io tests to work. We are considering to use > systemd directly to replace ruby-eye, if that happens, ruby-cellulid-io > won't be required for diaspora. > > More generally, is there a place where are listed packages with version > > in experimental with the reason why they are not in unstable? Following > > reverse (build)dependencies, one often goes back to gitlab or diaspora, > > as the big softwares consuming Ruby libraries, but it is not easy to see > > where in the path problems are. And given the number of packages under > > the team's umbrella, it does not scale. > Generally we stage major updates in experimental till diaspora or gitlab > is ready for unstable. We keep track of all the dependencies and > problems for each update in a gitlab issue. So that would be > https://git.fosscommunity.in/debian-ruby/TaskTracker/issues/134 for > diaspora. > > What about using explicitly the Breaks statement of the control file for > > the version uploaded to experimental? Also, what about using > > another branch than master (like 'experimental') to push these changes, > > as it makes things a bit more difficult that it should to update > > packages in unstable. > I started using that recently from last ruby-github-linguist update > Breaks: gitaly (<< 0.129.0+debian~), gitlab (<< 11.5.3+dfsg~) > From now I will use it for all experimental uploads. Thanks very much for the explanations. The version of nio4r in unstable dates from mid 2016 and could be updated. ruby-celluloid-io (and the rest of celluloid) has been unmaintained since 2016, so using something else if possible seems to be indeed a good idea. I will try to see in the coming days if ruby-celluloid-io is not worse with the experimental nio4r than with the current one in unstable, and then reupload to unstable to fix the RC bug for the next stable. Cheers, Cédric
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