On 02/01/12 at 13:13 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: > The Ruby team has indicated that they plan to stop providing bug > support for Ruby 1.8.7 later this year, and to drop all support next > year: > > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/ > > The Rails team has indicated that they will be dropping support for > Ruby 1.8.7 with the next major release, expected to occur later this > year: > > http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/12/20/rails-master-is-now-4-0-0-beta > > Given that Debian already provides support for changing the default > version, wouldn't it make sense for the next release of Debian (and > the next release of Ubuntu, given that 12.04 is intended to be LTS > release) to default to Ruby 1.9.3?
Taking http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/wheezy/details.html, I think that we should migrate or remove all packages with popcon > 200 (for the Ruby package). At this point, I think that we should file wishlist bugs for the remaining packages. Anyone willing to do that? (with a usertag, etc) Also, there's some mess to clean up. The 'rails' source package should be replaced by the 'ruby-rails-2.3' source package by introducing transitional packages. Finally, we should test what happens when 1.9 is used. Everybody, please install ruby-switch and run 'sudo ruby-switch --set ruby1.9.1'. At least apt-listbugs is currently broken when I do that. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
