Re: Rails 6 transition - current status and blockers

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 20:13, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:03:41AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  As discussed in today's ruby team BoF, I'm sending the list of 
> > current
> >  blockers for rails 6 transition.
> >
> >  1. node-yarnpkg blocked by node-babel removal (need to port to 
> > node-babel7)
> >  - via ruby-webpackager which is currently in Depends for rails meta 
> > package
> >  (rails new foo needs it). One suggestion from Duck was to lower this
> >  requirement to Recommends. But we will then also need to disable 
> > newapp
> >  autopkgtest/mark it as skip if dependencies are not available 
> > restriction
> >  (don't remember the exact name, just saw it in today's debconf 
> > presentation
> >  about autopkgtest status).
>
> Restrictions: skippable + exit 77

Fixed as suggested by Antonio in the follow up mail.
> >  2. rails autopkgtest has a regression in arm64
> >  
> > https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/arm64/r/rails/6730827/log.gz
> >  I don't know what is the root cause, it appears something related 
> > to python2
> >  removal.
>
> I started looking at this, and tried to run the rails autopkgtest
> locally. It seems to be downloading random (JS) packages from the 
> internet?
> If that's the case, I would say we probably don't want that.

Fixed as suggested by Antonio in the follow up mail.

> >  4. ruby-rspec-rails needs fixing autopkgtest regression (rc bug not 
> > filed
> >  yet)
>
> I fixed this.

Thanks!
> >  6. Some packages will need to be removed from testing (if auto 
> > removals
> >  don't remove it by the time the remaining issues are fixed) and 
> > missed
> >  filing rc bugs/wrongly categorized on the tracking wiki: redmine
> >  ruby-diaspora-federation-rails ruby-has-scope
> >  Marked for autoremoval.
> >  ruby-ammeter (28th August)
> >  ruby-data-migrate (04th September)
> >  schleuder (05th September)
>
> I think everything that is broken with rails 6 with in testing should 
> be
> removed sooner rather than later, to unblock rails migrating. These 
> can
> be fixed later. Can someone please just report the corresponding FTBFS
> bugs?

I have filed rc bugs for ruby-diaspora-rails ruby-has-scope and also 
requested removal from testing. The status is updated in the salsa wiki 
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/rails/-/wikis/Transition-to-Rails-6-for-Debian-Bullseye