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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