On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 3:20 pm, Utkarsh Gupta <utka...@debian.org>
wrote:
Hi Praveen,
On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 11:54 AM Pirate Praveen
<prav...@onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
Did you also fix the two broken packages mentioned by Daniel ?
a) pry has "Breaks" for respective packages.
b) ruby-guard has been fixed and uploaded.
c) ruby-pry-byebug is fixed in the git repository. Waiting for your
ack to upload 3.9.0 (from 3.7.0) to unstable. Let me know if gitlab
works fine; if it does, I'll process the upload.
1. At least SemVer.org compliance should be assumed (even though many
upstreams don't follow it and breaking changes are introduced in even
security updates, for example rack 2.0.7 -> 2.0.8 is not compatible) as
a compromise (as assuming every change breaks is not practical). This
means major version updates of upstream with public API (when version
>= 1.0) and minor updates of upstream without a public API (when
version < 1.0). So in this case ruby-method-source and pry, both are
breaking changes (sometimes we may be lucky and nothing breaks, but we
cannot assume that when upstream explicitly gives a warning by
appropriate version bumps).
2. When ruby-method-source was uploaded to unstable, there should be
these steps, a) ideally fix pry along with ruby-method-source b) file a
bug with severity important against pry and give sufficient time for
pry maintainer to update. When ruby-method-source was uploaded the bug
against pry should be raised to serious. And same process should be
followed for pry as well. That is the heads up should be given by
filing bugs before uploading to unstable. It is also helpful if some
one has to fix it after a long time and many dependencies have changed.
3. In case of pry-byebug since it is only a minor update of an upstream
with public API, we can assume it does not break and upload without
coordination. If we are unlucky and something breaks, we can fix it
later.
If we are not following these, things become much harder to fix later
(we will have to track and test every dependency change that happened).
