On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:47:27 -0300 Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:49:17PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 14:28:43 -0300 Antonio Terceiro wrote: [...] > > > one bit I forgot: we also decided that we won't support more than one > > > version in stable releases, so the 'default' version is actually the > > > unique one. > > > > I am not too happy to hear that: as far as I know, Debian gives more > > choice to users for other languages (such as Python, AWK, all GCC > > languages, ...). > > I hope this situation will improve in the future. I think that > > supporting at least a couple of major versions (a more mature one, used > > as default interpreter, and a more recent bleeding edge one) would be > > great. > > Well, choices need people to support them.
That's true. > With 2 Ruby versions security > problems often need 6 different uploads¹ that have to be built and > tested, and I prefer to spend only half that time and spend the other > half doing other things in Debian. :) > > ¹ 2 versions x 3 suites (unstable, stable, oldstable) Fair enough, but, still, it would be great to have two supported major versions: it would give people more time to port libraries and applications to a newer Ruby interpreter, while still relying on the more mature one... Anyway, just to be clear: I fully understand your reasoning and I agree that, without more Ruby maintainers, it makes sense to reduce the number of supported major versions. > > Also, code that works Ruby 1.9 will mostly work with newer versions, > while the interpreter runtime gets better and better, so I don't see > much the point of keeping multiple versions around. I hope that in testing/unstable a newer major version of the Ruby interpreter will be introduced without immediately dropping support for the previous major version... This should give people tracking testing or unstable enough time to port their packages. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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