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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] status of ruby 1.8.7?
From:       Hans de Graaff <graaff () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2008-12-23 21:30:34
Message-ID: 1230067835.7588.3.camel () ip6-localhost
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On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 12:48 +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have ruby 1.8.7 in the tree masked since April.
> 
> # Richard Brown <rbrown@gentoo.org> (16 Apr 2008)
> # Masked for test
> =dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7*
> 
> There's no tracker bug or anything alike about the status of unmasking, so I 
> wanted to ask what's the status here.

Hanno also opened a bug and I've responded there:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252257

> Beside, I'd like to repeat that I think it's a very bad idea to add new 
> packages to package.mask "for testing" without any further information. 
> Usually a tracker bug is a good idea, but any other note where to find 
> information what needs to be done to get things ready is fine.

Agreed. This was an old mask from before the recent discussion about
this. I've updated the package.mask information accordingly.

Kind regards,

Hans

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