[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] ruby1.9 packages on amd64

Lucas Nussbaum lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net
Fri Mar 31 13:09:35 UTC 2006


[ Ccing the pkg-ruby-extras team and Akira Yamada (ruby1.9 maintainer) ]

Hi,

ruby1.9 currently FTBFS on amd64 (see bug 321316).
So, there's no ruby1.9 or ruby1.9-dev packages on amd64.
So, packages which build-dep on ruby1.9-dev won't get built on amd64.
So, those packages won't migrate to testing.

Questions :
- Is it really a good idea to build-dep on ruby1.9 currently ? Shouldn't
  we just build for ruby1.8 ?
- Are there some updated packages for ruby1.9 fixing the FTBFS in
  preparation ?

Thank you,
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