On 18/04/10 at 04:17 -0300, Elias Gabriel Amaral da Silva wrote: > Package: ruby > Version: 4.4 > Severity: normal > > I think that if some ruby apps expect that /usr/bin/ruby is really ruby1.8, so > > a) these apps must be fixed
Are those applications packaged in Debian? If yes, please file bugs on those applications. > b) if important apps aren't, squeeze must default to 1.8 Squeeze will default to 1.8. 1.9 is not ready to be used as the default ruby version yet. > You should consider that important libs (such as ruby-gnome2) isn't (AFAIK) > ported yet to 1.9 anyway. > > Also, notice that making it a *option* to put ruby as ruby1.9.1 does not break > any app (the user that wants to configure it is supposed to know better) If we provide an option for the user to shoot himself in the foot, but do not support that, it is still our problem (and users will file bugs about applications failing with 1.9). > Anyway, the alternatives system is working greatly for, hmm.. Java? And there > are multiple versions of java out there.. I wouldn't describe the java situation as "working great". In short: no, I don't think that this should be changed before the squeeze release. Yes, I think that we need to discuss future (= squeeze+1) plans for Ruby packaging in Debian, and that includes that issue. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
