From: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 10:45:47 +0200
Subject: Relax dependency resolution

---
 Gemfile         |  6 ------
 vagrant.gemspec | 45 +++++++++++++++------------------------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 15f2458..b4e2a20 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
 source "https://rubygems.org"
 
 gemspec
-
-if File.exist?(File.expand_path("../../vagrant-spec", __FILE__))
-  gem 'vagrant-spec', path: "../vagrant-spec"
-else
-  gem 'vagrant-spec', git: "https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant-spec.git"
-end
diff --git a/vagrant.gemspec b/vagrant.gemspec
index 3c74eb1..f7da9f6 100644
--- a/vagrant.gemspec
+++ b/vagrant.gemspec
@@ -16,36 +16,21 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.required_rubygems_version = ">= 1.3.6"
   s.rubyforge_project         = "vagrant"
 
-  s.add_dependency "childprocess", "~> 0.5.0"
-  s.add_dependency "erubis", "~> 2.7.0"
-  s.add_dependency "i18n", ">= 0.6.0", "<= 0.8.0"
-  s.add_dependency "listen", "~> 3.1.5"
-  s.add_dependency "hashicorp-checkpoint", "~> 0.1.1"
-  s.add_dependency "log4r", "~> 1.1.9", "< 1.1.11"
-  s.add_dependency "net-ssh", "~> 3.0.1"
-  s.add_dependency "net-sftp", "~> 2.1"
-  s.add_dependency "net-scp", "~> 1.1.0"
-  s.add_dependency "rb-kqueue", "~> 0.2.0"
-  s.add_dependency "rest-client", ">= 1.6.0", "< 3.0"
-  s.add_dependency "wdm", "~> 0.1.0"
-  s.add_dependency "winrm", "~> 1.6"
-  s.add_dependency "winrm-fs", "~> 0.3.0"
-
-  # We lock this down to avoid compilation issues.
-  s.add_dependency "nokogiri", "= 1.6.7.1"
-
-  # NOTE: The ruby_dep gem is an implicit dependency from the listen gem. Later versions
-  # of the ruby_dep gem impose an aggressive constraint on the required ruby version (>= 2.2.5).
-  # Explicit constraint is defined to provide required dependency to listen without imposing
-  # tighter restrictions on valid ruby versions
-  s.add_dependency "ruby_dep", "<= 1.3.1"
-
-  # Constraint rake to properly handle deprecated method usage
-  # from within rspec
-  s.add_development_dependency "rake", "~> 11.3.0"
-  s.add_development_dependency "rspec", "~> 2.14.0"
-  s.add_development_dependency "webmock", "~> 1.20"
-  s.add_development_dependency "fake_ftp", "~> 0.1"
+  ########################################################################
+  # On Debian, it not viable to lock down much of the dependencies because they
+  # are shared across applications in the entire archive. So here we are being
+  # optimistic and replacing `=` with `~>`.
+  ########################################################################
+  s.add_dependency "childprocess"
+  s.add_dependency "erubis"
+  s.add_dependency "i18n"
+  s.add_dependency "listen"
+  s.add_dependency "log4r"
+  s.add_dependency "net-ssh"
+  s.add_dependency "net-sftp"
+  s.add_dependency "net-scp"
+  s.add_dependency "rest-client"
+  s.add_dependency "nokogiri"
 
   # The following block of code determines the files that should be included
   # in the gem. It does this by reading all the files in the directory where