Bug 535764 – dev-vcs/subversion-1.8.11 should not depend on dev-lang/ruby:1.9

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Eric Gisse 2015-01-06 09:23:01 UTC]

I've noticed that my system insists on ruby19 support due to the default ruby useflag, and subversion insisting on ruby19. 

This isn't good. Ruby 1.9 support is going away in February. 

See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Ruby/Ruby_1.9_deprecation

For some reason subversion is hardcoded to use the ruby19 target only. Could this please be fixed?

It might be worth considering a bit of future proofing for next time, since subversion has been dinged with this before. See: #483102

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2015-01-07 20:53:19 UTC]

@ruby team: Can you please assist here? I'd like to have the ebuild using any available (and working) ruby version.

[Comment 2 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2015-02-07 08:59:43 UTC]

Well I won't recommend to depend on just dev-lang/ruby, as there's no guarantee that it will still work with later rubies. E.g. ruby19 support was added in 1.8.x, see https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1407206

For now, we recommend to use 
|| ( 
( dev-lang/ruby:1.9 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby19] ) 
( dev-lang/ruby:2.0 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby20] )
( dev-lang/ruby:2.1 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby21] )
( dev-lang/ruby:2.2 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby22] ) 
)
if all of these version have been tested to work with it.

[Comment 3 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2015-02-07 09:06:02 UTC]

(In reply to Manuel Rüger from comment #2)
> Well I won't recommend to depend on just dev-lang/ruby, as there's no
> guarantee that it will still work with later rubies. E.g. ruby19 support was
> added in 1.8.x, see
> https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1407206
> 
> For now, we recommend to use 
> || ( 
> ( dev-lang/ruby:1.9 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby19] ) 
> ( dev-lang/ruby:2.0 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby20] )
> ( dev-lang/ruby:2.1 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby21] )
> ( dev-lang/ruby:2.2 dev-lang/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby22] ) 
> )
> if all of these version have been tested to work with it.

Sorry I haven't looked at the complete ebuild.

Due to:
ac_cv_path_RUBY="${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/ruby19 ac_cv_path_RDOC="${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/rdoc19 \

I suggest to only depend on a single version of dev-lang/ruby, in this case ruby:2.0.

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2015-07-16 09:36:39 UTC]

=dev-vcs/subversion-1.8.11 is no longer in the tree and newer versions depend on either ruby:20 (stable) or ruby:21 (unstable)