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Re: What to do with rails?



On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 13:50, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014, at 13:48, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > * Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> [140624 13:44]:
> > > now that rails 4.1 is out we need to decide what to do with RoR in
> > > Debian.
> > > 
> > > >From past experience I would suggest to push very strong to have latest
> > > available version before freeze.
> > > 
> > > It would be better to don't have any reverse dependencies (like redmine)
> > > in next Debian stable than to cope with outdated not-supported version
> > > in stable like we do have now. We could always provide missing r-deps
> > > via backports and we would still end up in better situation than
> > > current.
> > 
> > If we're not going to ship any app that needs rails, I don't see a
> > point of shipping rails at all.
> 
> Ack.
> 
> If we are not able to ship a version of rails that will be supported for
> the lifetime of stable release we should not ship any rails at all.

And I have started the process to fix the current situation.

src:rails with 4.1 packaged has been uploaded to experimental
RC bug against rails-3.2 has been filled (#754969)
RC bug against rails-4.0 has been filled (#754983)
Removal bug against rails-4.0 has been filled (#754980)
Testing removal bug against rails-3.2 has been filled (#754981)

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
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