Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > It has almost been a week, with no answer from the release team. I'm > very concerned that this will reduce the time this package will be > tested before the release. > > The question is: >> can I prepare and upload 1.8.7p72? > > Thank you. > > On 02/09/08 at 18:50 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> 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?
Yes, please upload. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
