Control: retitle -1 ruby2.0: missing manpages for rdoc and testrb Control: severity -1 normal
Hello Scott, Thanks for your bug report. On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:07:00PM +1100, Scott Leggett wrote: > Package: ruby2.0 > Version: 2.0.0.353-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > After installing ruby2.0 from unstable, I used `update-alternatives` to > switch the default interpreter, with the following result. > > $ sudo update-alternatives --config ruby > There are 3 choices for the alternative ruby (providing /usr/bin/ruby). > > Selection Path Priority Status > ------------------------------------------------------------ > * 0 /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 51 auto mode > 1 /usr/bin/ruby1.8 50 manual mode > 2 /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 51 manual mode > 3 /usr/bin/ruby2.0 50 manual mode > > Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 3 > update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/ruby2.0 to provide /usr/bin/ruby > (ruby) in manual mode > update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of > /usr/share/man/man1/rdoc.1.gz because associated file > /usr/share/man/man1/rdoc2.0.1.gz (of link group ruby) doesn't exist > update-alternatives: warning: skip creation of > /usr/share/man/man1/testrb.1.gz because associated file > /usr/share/man/man1/testrb2.0.1.gz (of link group ruby) doesn't exist > > > Indeed, attempting to read the rdoc and testrb man pages doesn't work. > > `apt-file` also shows that the the 2.0.1 versions of the man pages don't > appear to be in the archive: > > $ apt-file search man1/rdoc > ruby1.8: /usr/share/man/man1/rdoc1.8.1.gz > ruby1.9.1: /usr/share/man/man1/rdoc1.9.1.1.gz > ruby1.9.3: /usr/share/man/man1/rdoc1.9.3.1.gz > > Thanks for your hard work bringing ruby 2 to Debian! Support for switching Ruby versions using alternatives is being discontinued, so that specific bit will never be fixed. However, the fact that we are missing manpages for rdoc and testrb is indeed a bug that needs to be fixed, since we want to switch to Ruby 2 as the default Ruby pretty soon. -- Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>
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