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

[Tomas Pospisek]

Hello Gunnar,

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

> 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.

Ah, OK, I understand. In that case, I'd be *very grateful*, if you'd 
have the the package removed from sid/the next release.

Thanks a lot Gunnar!
*t