On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:22:06PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
What about temporarily introducing "rack1.4" package and use that as
dependency in rails-3.2 (together with adding Breaks: rails-*-3.2 to
rack 1.5)
This is another idea, which could solve the problem, and
I guess it really depends on the plan for Rails in Jessie:
- if we want to keep 3.2 together with 4.0, then we indeed need two
versions of rack in the archive. Having two versions of Rails (and
rack represent a lot of work, maybe too much?)
- if the goal is to maintain just one version of Rails, then we need to
fix the one that was working in unstable, and has been broken for too
long. Rails 4.0 is uninstallable for various reasons now in
unstable anyway. We could move the whole development of Rails 4.0 in
experimental for the moment where it could have its 1.5.2+really1.5.2
version of rack :)
Having a clear and explicit goal for Rails in Jessie would be great.
I understand from earlier discussions [1] that the second scenario with
just one rails version was the prefered one.
Redmine however seems to lack support for Rails 4.0 [2].
1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2013/05/msg00030.html
2: http://www.redmine.org/issues/14534
Any comments/opinions on that?