dependence of recent versions on libruby1.8 >= 1.8.6.36-1

[boud]

hi samizdat-devel,

The recent versions of samizdat in debian experimental have
a dependence on libruby1.8 >= 1.8.6.36-1.

Is there a reason for this apart from the sync.rb bug?

i'm asking this because debian etch is presently 1.8.5-4etch1, 
and it's probably best to have production sites on debian stable,
even if the samizdat package itself is the most recent experimental
version.

There is an etch-backport of 1.8.6.114-2~bpo40+1, but AFAIK we
cannot expect backports to be security maintained.

Below i've put what is enough to at least install the latest
experimental version on an etch system. i don't (yet) know whether or
not it introduces bugs due to ignoring the ruby 1.8.6.36-1 dependence.

cheers
boud


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HOW TO INSTALL samizdat-0.6.1.20080703-2 ON ETCH:

AS ORDINARY USER:

# get the 3 samizdat packages
wget 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samizdat/samizdat_0.6.1.20080703-2_all.deb
wget 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samizdat/libsamizdat-ruby_0.6.1.20080703-2_all.deb
wget 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samizdat/libsamizdat-ruby1.8_0.6.1.20080703-2_all.deb

# get the mahoro package source from testing
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mahoro/mahoro_0.1.orig.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mahoro/mahoro_0.1-4.diff.gz
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mahoro/mahoro_0.1-4.dsc
dpkg-source -x mahoro_0.1-4.dsc
cd mahoro-0.1/

# you might need the following:
# cdbs # common debian build system
# etch  # ruby-pkg-tools not on sarge
aptitude install cdbs ruby-pkg-tools libmagic-dev libmagic
fakeroot debian/rules binary

AS ROOT:
dpkg -i ../libmahoro-ruby1.8_0.1-4_i386.deb
dpkg -i ../libmahoro-ruby_0.1-4_all.deb


cd ..
dpkg --ignore-depends=libruby1.8 -i libsamizdat-ruby1.8_0.6.1.20080703-2_all.deb
dpkg --ignore-depends=libruby1.8 -i libsamizdat-ruby_0.6.1.20080703-2_all.deb
dpkg --ignore-depends=libruby1.8 -i samizdat_0.6.1.20080703-2_all.deb

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