[DRE-maint] Call for ruby 1.9

[Filipe]

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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> On 20/12/07 at 14:27 +1100, James Healy wrote:
>> Filipe wrote:
>>> ruby 1.9 will be out soon (xmas?), and just a few packages from our team are ruby
>>> 1.9 compatible.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Has there been any further discussion on paths and such for the 1.9
>> package? I notice Lucas brought it up on the debian-ruby list in
>> November, but the discussion didn't resolve much.
>
> No further discussion. My plans are to prepare (or get someone to
> prepare :p) a ruby1.8 package with the vendor patch used by OpenSUSE,
> and upload it to experimental.
> Then convert a few of our libs to use it.
>
> The change wouldn't break existing libs, so it might be something we can
> still do for lenny.

Hey, I think I miss this discussion. It will be another ruby1.8 package?
And why this other package for ruby1.8, what will be the differences from the
current one?

Cheers,

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