Re: New interpreter packages available for testing
Hello, Lucas.
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 10:04 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> ruby-defaults (4.6) experimental; urgency=low
>
> * Remove the Ruby policy from the package. It is no longer applied to ruby
> packages anyway.
> * Make all binary packages transitional packages for their ruby1.8
> counterparts. This source package can be dropped after the wheezy release.
> * Upload to experimental. Changes are very intrusive and need
> extensive testing.
I replaced ruby packages on fresh natty with your versions and all seems
fine. No one of my work projects affected by changes (at least for
1.9.1).
> Note that we have two alternatives trees (one for ruby, one for gem). It's not
> convenient to have a single one with alternatives. I think that it would make
> sense to have a separate "ruby-switcher" tool, that would:
> - change all alternatives at the same time
> - ensure that needed native packages are installed
> Any takers?
Probably I can take this.
We need ruby-switcher to keep in sync versions for ruby and gem via
alternatives system. Other thing i would like to keep in sync and switch
with ruby version is /var/lib/gems/*/bin/. Can we manage it via
alternatives system too?
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