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Re: [RFC] Debian ruby policy (Re: Fw: Re: Ruby 1.8 transition plan; debian-ruby)



On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 12:53, Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
> Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
>  libtest-unit-ruby1.8 (<- libtest-unit-ruby)

Actually, I now only maintain Test::Unit for Ruby 1.6. Since it became
included with 1.8, akira yamada maintains that version, and when 1.8 was
packaged I dropped support for 1.7 from my package.

I'll rename the 1.6 package appropriately, though, but I'll wait until
the Ruby/GTK packages are renamed (unless that's going to take a very
long time?)

> Currently, ruby upstream doesn't support such version independent module 
> path /usr/share/ruby in $LOAD_PATH. Should we modify ruby 1.8 or later 
> to support this?

I think so, but I'm open to suggestions about it. It does IMO make
packaging modules without C code much simpler. The downside is when a
major incompatibility happens (i.e. code that works correctly on more
than one version is impossible), but I believe this is a rare enough
case to ignore (AFAIK it's never happened).
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>

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