On Mon, 2020-07-06 at 13:25 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Just like gitlab was removed from stable, rails can also get removed > from stable if no one steps up to maintain it. I'm happy with rails > in just unstable for my use cases. A package can be supported only > when people are willing to support it.
As a practical point, rails has over 100 reverse dependencies in stable and thus _cannot_ be removed. It could potentially not be included in a future release, but that would affect a lot of packages and need coordinating well in advance of the freeze. Regards, Adam