I'll pull the trigger at Friday the 20th, if there is no opposition (and there was no opposition so far).
Adding devel into the loop for wider audience. Vít Dne 11.5.2016 v 10:33 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): > > Hi all, > > I am thinking about retiring therubyracer from Fedora. Please let me > explain. > > It was always pain to have therubyracer in Fedora. First issue was to > get it working with system v8. We did that, but later, there were > issues with compatibility after v8 updates. Later, upstream split the > v8 from therubyrace into separate libv8 (!!!) rubygem, which made the > situation even worse, since I can't imagine to have > rubyge-libv8-4.5.95.5 which will use on the background different > version of system v8. This kept us with old version of therubyracer > and old version of v8. Recently, after introduction of gcc 6.x, there > were some issues with compilation of v8 and hence therubyracer was not > working. Now, Spot updated system v8 without asking into some recent > version, which is not compatible with our version of therubyracer [1] > and moreover, therubyracer upstream seems to be stalled (there is no > activity since September 2015 as far as I can say). > > We introduced therubyracer in the times, when NodeJS had not been > available in Fedora yet, when now it seems NodeJS is in Fedora and > does not go away any time soon. > > Upcoming version of RHSCL are going to use NodeJS in place of > therubyracer as well. > > All this means, that we should update all rubygems that needs some JS > engine to depends on NodeJS instead of therubyracer and retire > therubyracer. > > > Any thoughts? > > > Vít > > > > [1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/package/rubygem-therubyracer > > > > -------- Přeposlaná zpráva -------- > Předmět: Broken dependencies: rubygem-therubyracer > Datum: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:37:21 +0000 (UTC) > Od: build...@fedoraproject.org > Komu: rubygem-therubyracer-ow...@fedoraproject.org > > > > rubygem-therubyracer has broken dependencies in the rawhide tree: > On x86_64: > rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.x86_64 requires libv8.so.3()(64bit) > On i386: > rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.i686 requires libv8.so.3 > On armhfp: > rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.armv7hl requires libv8.so.3 > rubygem-therubyracer-0.11.0-13.fc24.armv7hl requires v8 > Please resolve this as soon as possible. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ruby-sig mailing list > ruby-...@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/ruby-...@lists.fedoraproject.org
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