On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 00:14 +0100, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Sam Morris <s...@robots.org.uk> [161205 20:16]: > > Upstream introduced the strict ruby version check to reduce the number > > of crashes experienced by users. See the issue above for the details. > > The discussions upstream has linked are from dire times - 1.8 and > 1.9, which indeed broke binary compat in minor releases. But these > times are long gone.
I've raised this with upstream and they agree that it should be safe to disable the version check. > > Although I agree that the strict dependency is not ideal, I don't want > > to go against their decision in this case. > > Please understand you're causing extra issues not just for your > package, but also for librubyX.Y. Sorry about that--I didn't realise it would cause any work except for me uploading a new version of the package whenever it became uninstallable in unstable! -- Sam Morris <https://robots.org.uk/> PGP: rsa4096/CAAA AA1A CA69 A83A 892B 1855 D20B 4202 5CDA 27B9
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