On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 16:12 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > # Redmine > > =dev-ruby/builder-3.1.4 ~amd64 > > =dev-ruby/rails-3.2.13 ~amd64
> Ok, this one is ridiculous. The stable version of Rails is 2.3.18, and > 3.0 was released almost exactly three years ago. Every time rails-3.x > gets bumped, I have to manually update the entire list above. I need > to do it on an x86 server as well, so I get to do it twice; I can't > even copy/paste the list. Apologies for that. This is a case of lack of man-power combined with a nasty set of dependencies to get stable (e.g. circular dependencies, packages outside of ruby also needing to go stable). Unfortunately not the most motivating work, especially compared to a lot of other tasks in the ruby herd. I've been making some inroads a month ago, and I should really push this through to stable. Fun fact: no one ever filed a stable bug for a Rails 3 version. I think users could help out with the overall problem being discussed here as well by filing STABLEREQ bugs for things they need from ~arch. BTW, you can drop "~amd64" and have the same meaning, leaving you with a copy/pasteable list. > It sucks, but it's still better than running ~arch. Problems like this > should be fixed, but if you decide it's easier to > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" than deal with the exceptions, you're asking for > trouble. +1. Hans
