Bug#636554: jruby: New upstream release

[Alex Young]

On 25/09/12 13:31, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM, James Healy<jimmy at deefa.com>  wrote:
>>> JRuby 1.6.3 is available upstream and includes official support for ruby
>>> 1.9 syntax. Are there any plans to package 1.6.x?
>
>> yes, but every helping hand is welcome!
>
> Is there a place where this plans are documented? What are they? I might
> be interested to help. I've already started a bit, but don't know java
> that much and hit some symbols not found errors at compilation time.
>

The work was done to repackage jruby-1.6.7.2 in June: 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-java-maintainers/2012-June/039090.html

It had no response. I presume that's because it re-ships the jars it 
requires rather than depending on existing Debian packages where they're 
available.  If I were to suggest a starting point, it would be to get 
its dependencies up to date.

-- 
Alex