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Subject: Re: Removing ruby22?
From: Greg Troxel <gdt () lexort ! com>
Date: 2018-06-25 23:04:33
Message-ID: smuk1qmv56m.fsf () linuxpal ! mit ! edu
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Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:19:41PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>
>> Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> writes:
>>
>> > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:22:03PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> In message <20180623091033.337zxuianzoor5hw@danbala>
>> >> on Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:10:33 +0200,
>> >> Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> wrote:
>> >> > Hi!
>> >> >
>> >> > https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/06/20/support-of-ruby-2-2-has-ended/
>> >> >
>> >> > says
>> >> >
>> >> > "We announce that all support of the Ruby 2.2 series has ended.
>> >> Yes, I know.
>> >>
>> >> > For that reason, I suggest we remove ruby22 from pkgsrc.
>> >> Only problem is ruby22 only pacakges: ruby-redmine and its friends.
>> >
>> > The changelog for redmine 3.4.0 claims that it supports ruby-2.4 (see
>> > also https://www.redmine.org/issues/25048).
>> >
>> > ryoon (MAINTAINER), can you please update the package to 3.4.x?
>>
>> Sure, but that's a clue that despite upstream ruby stopping support for
>> 2.2, that it isn't really "no longer useful, and nobody should be using
>> it", so deletion seems premature.
>
> Well, I disagree. redmine-3.4.0 supporting ruby-2.4 was released
> nearly a year ago. We're just behind in the pkgsrc update.
I didn't realize it was a year ago. My real point is that "upstream
stopped maintaining" isn't the right question, but "and anybody using this
is out of line" -- which usually doesn't get discussed.
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