On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 06:12:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 01:22:15PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> On my next package upload, should I just drop Ruby 1.8? I can easily > >> do that, but I wasn't sure if we were at the point where that was now > >> desirable, or if the upgrade path for Ruby 1.8 users had been worked > >> out and had any implications for how I should handle matters in my > >> package. (Breaks or whatnot, etc.) > > >> For now, I'm continuing to build 1.8 and 1.9.1 modules, but I can > >> quickly change that as soon as I know what to do. > > > Our goal is to remove ruby1.8 and switch to ruby2.0 as the default, > > ASAP, so it would be nice if you started building extensions for 1.9.1 > > and 2.0 (only). > > I guess I should ask this more explicitly: what's the plan for handling > upgrades from wheezy? Suppose a user has ruby1.8 installed and is using > it for various things along with packaged Debian modules, say ruby-remctl > (to pick a random example). They then upgrade their system to wheezy. > Ruby 1.8 doesn't upgrade, of course, but neither does it disappear from > the system... but ruby-remctl does upgrade, and then the Ruby modules for > 1.8 disappear out from under them without much warning. > > Don't we need to handle this in some way?
Ruby packages must depend on `ruby | ruby-interpreter`. the `Provides: ruby-interpreter` was just dropped from ruby1.8, so it won't satisfy that dependency anymore, which will cause any packages that need a Ruby interpreter to either pull in `ruby` (the default Ruby) or any other interpreter already installed. ruby1.8 is not the default Ruby in wheezy already, so people using `just ruby` should actually already be using ruby1.9.1. In the case of users how made an explicit choice to use ruby1.8 (because they didn't or couldn't upgrade their inhouse code to a newer Ruby version), I don't think there's much we can do about it. -- Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>
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