[DRE-maint] Call for ruby 1.9

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 20/12/07 at 01:31 -0200, Filipe wrote:
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> Hi Team,
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> so, this is a call for ruby 1.9.
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> ruby 1.9 will be out soon (xmas?), and just a few packages from our team are ruby
> 1.9 compatible.
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> Probabily a lot of upstream sources do not support ruby 1.9 yet. But
> this is the change that we got to make it ruby 1.9 compatible and submit
> changes to upstream and help our upstream source maintainers.
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> If someone needs help porting packages to ruby 1.9, I'll be really happy
> to help. I already had a lot of fights with mongrel source (and still
> having), and there are some common things that just need to be changed
> to source become ruby 1.9 compatible. Even "my" packages need ruby 1.9
> porting, so this e-mail is valid for me too :)

I am not sure if we should start doing this work now.
- Ruby 1.9 probably won't be the official ruby version 2008
- Ruby 1.9 is still a moving target
- Supporting Ruby 1.9 will bring us many bugs. I just removed ruby1.9
  support from some packages which were FTBFSing because of ruby1.9
  changes.

I would prefer to wait until at least ruby 1.9 is released. Then work
with our upstreams on those issues. (ie not maintain Debian-specific
patches for that)
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