Transition note: Ruby 2.0 is going away

Sebastiaan Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Thu May 15 12:24:32 UTC 2014


Dear Ruby Maintainers.

> Dear colleagues,
>
> you're hearing from me because ruby2.0 is going away, and one of
> your packages depends or build-depends on ruby or a related package.
>
> A new ruby metapackage (src:ruby-defaults) that changes the list of
> supported ruby interpreters to only 2.1 will enter sid today.
>
> While 2.0 and 2.1 are very similar and thus, we don't expect any
> real breakage, please ensure your package still works with ruby2.1,
> and, if it (build-)depends on (lib)ruby2.0, please drop that
> dependency in favor of (lib)ruby2.1 (or better, one of the meta
> packages).

I don't understand why you haven't rebuild these packages with Ruby 2.1 to
verify whether they build, and file bugs for those that don't.

> Bas Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
>    geos (U)
>    mapserver (U)

I've rebuild these two packages, and they both build fine with Ruby 2.1
Please BinNMU them when Ruby 2.0 is removed.

> Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>    geos
>    mapserver
>    ruby-hdfeos5
>    ruby-hdfeos5 (1.2-1)
>    ruby-narray-miss
>    ruby-netcdf
>    ruby-netcdf (0.6.6-2)

I've not rebuild the ruby-* packages listed above. There is currently work
in progress to update the NetCDF packages, so if there are Ruby 2.1 issues
they may be addressed in the process.

Kind Regards,

Bas




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