Hi, The two ruby versions (1.8 = stable branch, 1.9 = dev branch) are affected by two issues: - (ruby1.9 specific): the fact that ruby1.9 fails to build on hppa, so all ruby1.9 packages (and their reverse dependencies) need to be removed from hppa. (tracked as #478717 and #491930) - a lot of security issues (apparently, people started auditing ruby's code only recently, and are finding a lot of problems). This is tracked as #494401 and #496808 for ruby1.8, #494402 for ruby1.9.
This email addresses the security issues, and only for ruby1.8. ruby1.9 is a different story, and I haven't had time to look at it yet (I'm supposed to be in VAC). I CCed debian-ruby@: if someone have time to look at ruby1.9, help would be very much appreciated. Currently, in unstable/testing, we have ruby1.8 1.8.7p22, with some backported patches (not fixing the security issues mentioned above). Continuing to backport patches to that versions seems errorprone and time-consuming, so instead, I'd like to ask for permission to package and upload 1.8.7p72 ASAP, let it migrate to lenny, and get as much testing as possible until the release. - ruby1.8 is the stable branch of ruby. The diff between 1.8.7p22 and p72 mostly contains bug fixes. (see upstream diff in attachment) - 1.8.7p72 has been released on 08/08, and the ruby community is known for upgrading to the latest upstream ASAP, so it surely was well tested. I haven't heard of any regressions caused by it (p22 broke rails). - That's about all I'll have time to (properly) do anyway, and Daigo Moriwaki is also in VAC. So, question: can I prepare and upload 1.8.7p72? Thank you, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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