[DRE-maint] Bug#722375: Updating the Ruby packaging policy for your package «libposixlock-ruby»

[Gunnar Wolf]

Tomas Pospisek dijo [Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:46:32PM +0200]:
> according to popcon there are a few user using the package. I don't
> know if the number there is statistically relevant - or in other
> words if those users really *are* using the package.
> 
> If we leave the package in Debian as is, then at least we serve
> those few users.
> 
> I'm not sure what we gain by dropping the package.
> 
> But please proceed as you judge right.

Hi Tomas,

The problem is that, as this bug is not compatible with Ruby ≥ 1.9.1,
and upstream no longer supports it, it would not allow us to drop Ruby
1.8 (which is planned to happen during this release cycle). Jessie
will ship with support for Ruby 1.9.1 and 2.0, but 1.8 will be
dropped.