On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Christian Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > * Pirate Praveen <[email protected]> [150519 10:11]: >> On Tuesday 19 May 2015 12:09 PM, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> > On Tuesday 19 May 2015 03:44 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >> >> vagrant is now broken in unstable, due to an update of ruby-timers. >> >> >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785632 >> >> >> >> As it turns out, vagrant depends in ruby-listen, that depends on >> >> ruby-celulloid, that has a strict ~> 1.1.0 dependency on ruby-timers. >> >> Also, ruby-celluloid is the *only* reverse dependency of ruby-timers, so >> >> discovering the breakage before the upload should probably require very >> >> little effort. > > In light of these issues I've hacked together a script to check > dependencies betweens gems at DebConf15. > > Ensure you have sid in your sources.list. > # apt-get update > > $ git clone https://github.com/zeha/pkg-ruby-checkutils > $ cd pkg-ruby-checkutils > $ ruby buildcache.rb > $ ruby versioncheck.rb -a > > You'll end up with a list of not-met gem dependencies across sid. > > Warning: buildcache.rb downloads all amd64 debs containing a gemspec > from a Debian mirror (bandwidth warning), and versioncheck.rb then > loads these gemspecs (possible security warning). > > A list from earlier today (split by development dependencies): > > https://gist.github.com/zeha/cbab529c1076d37ab7be > > > Feel free to hack on these scripts more, copy them to alioth, ...
Is this something that we should (could?) use now? Some documentation would be nice! -- Per
