Hi, On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 07:46:09AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: gem2deb > Version: 1.4 > Tags: patch > > Traditionally, packages could enable debhelper addons using > --with=ADDON. That's what works today and is most commonly used. > Recently, debhelper added another way of doing so. If one declares a > build dependency on dh-sequence-ADDON, the addon is automatically > enabled. This is beneficial for two major reason: > * Don't repeat yourself. There no longer is a need to issue both > "Build-Depends: gem2deb" and "dh --with=ruby". A single > "Build-Depends: dh-sequence-ruby" takes care of both. > * We can declaratively conditionalize Build-Depends. The most obvious > one is e.g. "Build-Depends-Indep: dh-sequence-ruby". Conditionally > enabling an addon in debian/rules has been quite annoying thus far > and the declarative method makes it simple. Build profiles are also > supported, so "Build-Depends: dh-sequence-ruby <!noruby>" does the > right thing. > > As such, please consider applying the attached patch. I think that this > is really harmless, so if there is any chance of getting this into > bullseye, please do it. Otherwise, it'll have to be added to > bullseye-backports in order to support packages in bookworm that start > relying on it. I do see that this comes quiet late, so I don't expect > miracles.
Thanks. I applied your patch but I don't intend to upload any non-bugfix update to gem2deb this late into the freeze.
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