Bug#731465: ecasound: Please update to allow for Ruby 1.8 deprecation

Alessandro Ghedini ghedo at debian.org
Thu Dec 5 20:46:12 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 12:33:56PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Alessandro Ghedini dijo [Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 07:16:50PM +0100]:
> > > Ruby1.8 is scheduled to be removed before the Jessie release. You can
> > > apply the trivial patch I am inlining here to make it work under newer
> > > Ruby releases (including 1.9.1, which will be Jessie's default).
> > > 
> > > This patch also drops the transitional libecasound-ruby1.8 package,
> > > as, since it was introduced pre-wheezy, it's no longer necessary.
> > 
> > ruby-ecasound was introduced *in* wheezy, and the transitional package is still
> > necessary for proper upgrades from squeeze (not that I expect to be many users
> > of the package, let alone in squeeze, but still).
> 
> Right — Users upgrading from Squeeze will get to Wheezy (with
> pre-wheezy, I meant "during the Wheezy release cycle) and will have
> the ruby-ecasound package installed. When they upgrade from Wheezy to
> Jessie, the transitional package will no longer be necessary. So, it's
> safe to remove it now.
> 
> Debian does not support directly upgrading from release x to x+2, so
> users upgrading from Squeeze will anyway go through Wheezy.

Yeah I meant squeeze->jessie. Though I guess this time is as good as any to
remove all the transitional packages.

Cheers

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