Sinatra: Rails backports are deprecated (sinatra-contrib)

[DannyBen]

I see many backports related issues, but none are recent or open, so I am posting this issue in case it is not already known.

I see some issues are calling for removal of the backports dependency - maybe this is an opportunity to reconsider?

Problem

When sinatra-contrib is required, there is a message printed to STDERR:

Rails backports are deprecated

Reproduction

Run this script.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'bundler/inline'

gemfile do
  source "https://rubygems.org"
  gem 'sinatra', '2.0.8.1'
  gem 'sinatra-contrib', '2.0.8.1'
end

References

• The deprecation commit from Feb 16, 2020
  https://github.com/marcandre/backports/commit/e01f4dfbf0cc5bf76151e408905b3be31948f2fe

[jkowens]

Closed by #1411.

[DannyBen]

Will this fix be released soon?