On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:22:00 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:20:07 +0100 > Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> wrote: > > Dear release team, at some point before the wheezy release, we need to > > decide what to do with Ruby 1.9.X on ia64. It has been broken for > > months, and hasn't seen any activity in Debian (#539141) or upstream > > (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5246). > > > > I think that removing it (with all its rev-depends) makes more sense > > than shipping a known-broken Ruby. > > To recap: ruby1.9.1 on ia64 is broken, neglected and lucas as one of > its maintainers agrees to remove it on ia64. > > Dear release team: How do we move this forward? Should I follow > http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals? > Start by making a list of affected packages. Then figure out which one would need complete removal and which ones need source changes to disable the ruby parts on ia64. Then run away screaming. Cheers, Julien
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