Source: mecab
Version: 0.996-16
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
X-Debbugs-Cc: sramacher@debian.org

Dear maintainer,

mecab FTBFS:

dh_auto_install --buildsystem=ruby
	dh_ruby --install /build/reproducible-path/mecab-0.996/debian/tmp
Invalid gemspec in [mecab-ruby.gemspec.gem2deb]: undefined method `has_rdoc=' for an instance of Gem::Specification
Invalid gemspec in [mecab-ruby.gemspec]: undefined method `has_rdoc=' for an instance of Gem::Specification
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/metadata.rb:135:in `load_gemspec': E: cannot load gemspec mecab-ruby.gemspec (RuntimeError)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/metadata.rb:37:in `block in initialize'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/metadata.rb:36:in `chdir'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/metadata.rb:36:in `initialize'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/installer.rb:24:in `new'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/installer.rb:24:in `initialize'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:228:in `new'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:228:in `block in installers'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:227:in `map'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:227:in `installers'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:63:in `installers'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:52:in `install'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gem2deb/dh_ruby.rb:163:in `install'
	from /usr/bin/dh_ruby:89:in `<main>'
dh_auto_install: error: dh_ruby --install /build/reproducible-path/mecab-0.996/debian/tmp returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:34: override_dh_auto_install] Error 25

See
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=mecab&arch=amd64&ver=0.996-16%2Bb1&stamp=1784820429&raw=0
for details.

Cheers

Dear maintainer,

I've prepared an NMU for mecab (versioned as 0.996-16.1) and uploaded
it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I should cancel it.

cu
Adrian

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mecab, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1142723@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> (supplier of updated mecab package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:23:10 +0300
Source: mecab
Architecture: source
Version: 0.996-16.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Natural Language Processing (Japanese) <team+pkg-nlp-ja@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>
Closes: 1142723
Changes:
 mecab (0.996-16.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Fix FTBFS with recent rubygems. (Closes: #1142723)
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