Hello everyone, Recently we decided to not have Rails 3.2 in jessie. Since security support is already in "only serious security issues" mode, we can't count on serious security support for the jessie lifetime. We also decided that it is not worth the effort to maintain multiple rails stacks simultaneously, and to drop the "versioning" in package names (ruby-activerecord-3.2 etc). We have now started the effort to bring rails 4 (4.1) in shape to be released. Right now, rails is seriously broken in unstable: # apt install ruby-rails Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: ruby-rails : Depends: ruby-actionpack (= 2:4.1.4-4) Depends: ruby-actionmailer (= 2:4.1.4-4) Depends: ruby-railties (= 2:4.1.4-4) Depends: ruby-sprockets-rails (>= 2.0) but it is not going to be installed Depends: ruby-sprockets-rails (< 3.0) but it is not going to be installed The bulk of the work needed to bring rails back on ... rails ;-), is: - packaging new dependencies, such as spring (I am on it) - making sure the packages shown above are installable. a lot of them are just hardcoding dependendies on *-3.2 packages, which are not co-installable with the new ones from the `rails` source package. - fixing ruby-jquery-rails, ruby-coffee-rails, ruby-sass-rails, etc so that the asset pipeline works out of the box. - making sure we have all upstream versions needed in order for rails 4 to operate correctly. The primary acceptance criteria is to pass the autopkgtest test suite in the source package. I want to let you know that I am working on this. I will appreciate any help I can get, so if you want to help with this let me know so that we can coordinate and don't duplicate work. I don't have a clear list of action items yet, though; it is more or less exploratory work at this point. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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