Hi, On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:47:16PM +0100, Alex Young wrote: > On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 21:48 +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > > On 9/17/13, Alex Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Ruby 1.8 is scheduled to be removed, so it's not supported by current > > >> ruby-nokogiri package. Please, use ruby 1.9.1 or 2.0 instead. > > > > > > If it's not supported, shouldn't 1.8 be removed as a dependency? > > > > ruby-nokogiri doesn't depend on ruby1.8, it depends (among others) on > > ruby-interpreter, provided by ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1 and ruby2.0.
> Maybe I don't understand properly what's going on here. That's a bug, > surely? If ruby-nokogiri doesn't work and isn't supported, under > ruby1.8, how is that a valid dependency? ruby1.8 is not a direct dependency of ruby-nokogiri. ruby-nokogiri depends on ruby | ruby-interpreter. ruby provides the default version of the ruby interpreter in Debian, which has been ruby1.9.1 since wheezy. The only marginal case when things can go wrong is the case when a user has ruby1.8 installed but not ruby. Then the dependencies for ruby-nokogiri will be statisfied since ruby1.8 provides ruby-interpreter. However, having ruby1.8 stop providing ruby-interpreter is planned. Cheers, Cédric
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