Hi list, I would like to run a bit of a cleanup in devel:languages:ruby:extensions and get rid of all the old and unmaintained gems that keep rotting in there. The following packages are either unresolvable or are consistently failing to build and haven't been touched for a few years (comments for some that I checked in more details are in parenthesis): - ruby-gnome2-all - rubygem-ar_fixtures - rubygem-aws (officially deprecated upstream) - rubygem-baretest - rubygem-bcodec - rubygem-bdb - rubygem-better_nested_set (maintainer MIA) - rubygem-bloomfilter - rubygem-bzip2-ruby (title says it's not compatible with Ruby 2.1) - rubygem-campaign_monitor - rubygem-campaign_monitor_party - rubygem-capybara-webkit (depends on qt4) - rubygem-capybara-webkit-0 (depends on qt4) - rubygem-cgi_multipart_eof_fix (upstream gone) - rubygem-chardet - rubygem-chef-solr - rubygem-compass-rails-1_0 - rubygem-couch_tomato (upstream gone) - rubygem-curb-0_7 - rubygem-dbd-mysql - rubygem-dbd-pg - rubygem-dep-selector-libgecode - rubygem-dep_selector-0_1 - rubygem-dep_selector - rubygem-dm-do-adapter - rubygem-dm-migrations - rubygem-dm-observer - rubygem-dm-oracle-adapter - rubygem-dm-sqlite-adapter - rubygem-dm-timestamps - rubygem-dm-transactions - rubygem-dm-validations - rubygem-dust - rubygem-dynamic_form - rubygem-dynect4r - rubygem-em-http-request-0_2 (this one is probably just incompatible with ruby 3.0) - rubygem-escape - rubygem-exception_notification-1_0 - rubygem-extjs-mvc - rubygem-ezcrypto - rubygem-fastri - rubygem-fastthread - rubygem-fusefs (ftbfs on TW due to stricter compiler policies, might be fixable) - rubygem-gemcutter - rubygem-git-gitlab - rubygem-grpc - rubygem-gtk2 (depends on rubygem-pango, which ftbfs) - rubygem-haml-4 - rubygem-has_alter_ego - rubygem-html5 - rubygem-htmldiff - rubygem-i18n-0_4 - rubygem-ini - rubygem-jabber4r - rubygem-johnson - rubygem-jrails - rubygem-kiwi_diff - rubygem-language_detector - rubygem-librex - rubygem-libxslt-ruby - rubygem-linecache - rubygem-linecache19 - rubygem-luck - rubygem-mailtrap - rubygem-memcached - rubygem-memprof - rubygem-merb-extjs-direct - rubygem-meta_programming - rubygem-metaid - rubygem-method_source-0_7 - rubygem-migration_test_helper - rubygem-mkrf - rubygem-mongo-dequeue (dead upstream) - rubygem-mutter - rubygem-mysql (C bindings don't work with MySQL any more) - rubygem-mysql2-0.4 (ftbfs, new version available as rubygem-msql2) - rubygem-mysqlplus - rubygem-neo4jr-simple - rubygem-neo4jr-social - rubygem-nokogiri-1_6 (newer version available) - rubygem-nokogiri-1_7 - rubygem-oci8 - rubygem-packet - rubygem-pango (appears to depend on an old pango) - rubygem-perftools.rb - rubygem-pidfile - rubygem-polkit - rubygem-polkit1 - rubygem-pr_geohash (maintainer MIA) - rubygem-prawn-flexible-table - rubygem-prawn-format - rubygem-prawn-js - rubygem-prawn-layout - rubygem-prawn-security - rubygem-public_suffix_service - rubygem-pygments.rb-0_3 - rubygem-pyu-ruby-sasl - rubygem-qtbindings (depends on qt4) - rubygem-rails-extjs-direct - rubygem-rbot - rbx-require-relative - rubygem-rcov_rails - rubygem-rdoc-data - rubygem-redgreen - rubygem-resource_controller - rubygem-rev - rubygem-rflickr - rubygem-ri_cal - rubygem-riakrest - rubygem-ruby-debug - rubygem-ruby-debug-base - rubygem-ruby-debug-base19 - rubygem-ruby-hmac - rubygem-ruby-openid-apps-discovery - rubygem-ruby-rpm - rubygem-ruby-shadow - rubygem-ruby-yadis - rubygem-ruby_core_source - rubygem-rubytorrent - rubygem-safemode-1.0 - rubygem-scrypt-1 - rubygem-selenium-rails - rubygem-sexp - rubygem-spawn - rubygem-starfish - rubygem-static_record_cache - rubygem-SystemTimer - rubygem-test-spec - rubygem-testunitxml - rubygem-therubyracer - rubygem-thor-0_15 - rubygem-thrift - rubygem-tidy - rubygem-timeline_fu - rubygem-tlattr_accessors - rubygem-tmail - rubygem-tokyocabinet - rubygem-tuple - rubygem-url_mount - rubygem-validatable - rubygem-vikinggem - rubygem-virtualbox - rubygem-vote_fu - rubygem-waxeye - rubygem-websocket-rack - rubygem-wirble - rubygem-wkhtmltopdf-binary - rubygem-zmq Unless anyone objects, I will delete these packages in two weeks. If you decide to save one of these, please reply to this email, so that I remove them from the kill-list. We also have quite a few uninstallable packages in the project, which are imho also not very useful. I would tackle these in the second kill round once we got the number of build failures down. Cheers, Dan -- Dan Čermák <dcermak@suse.com> Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer