Bug#474748: ITP: ruby-pg -- PostgreSQL interface for Ruby

[Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org>]

On 11349 March 1977, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:58:12PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
>> Aurélien, what is your impression ruby-postgres upstream? According to
>> RubyForge, it appears to be dead since about 2 years ago... If it
>> truly is so, probably we should change description of libpgsql-ruby to
>> recommend ruby-pg?
> It is indeed dead upstream. I even refrained to upload the
> latest snapshot (with notices support), because it appeared as a
> reverse-dependency of rails, and I never had a use case for it with
> rails. I used libdbi-ruby1.8 with rails.
> I adopted it back then, because I used it for personal admin
> scripts. There is also libdbd-pg-ruby1.8 as reverse-dependency.
> I would go for a total replacement, as this fork is what seems to
> be used nowadays. Since I do not have the time to investigate, this
> is why I said that you can do whatever it takes to move on, so feel
> free to add you as co-maintainer.

i think i want it to replace the old package then (ie take its name and
stuff), not a new source/binary package.

-- 
bye, Joerg
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