[ruby-core:55877] Re: ruby 1.9.3 p448 breaks ABI

2013/7/9 V咜 Ondruch <[e-mail]>:
> Dne 9.7.2013 4:03, NARUSE, Yui napsal(a):
>
>> Why you didn't report it before release?
>
>
> If I had noticed it earlier, I would have reported it. I'll try to do better
> next time. However, please note
>
> * There was only *one* day between the breakage and release of -p448. It
> means there was almost no time to react.

Yeah, such commits just before the release is not a good habit.
It should be fixed.

> It would be also helpful to know
> ahead "we are going release p448 as next release, you have $TIMEPERIOD to
> test".

You are describing ruby security mailing list, and there's such information.

> * There is ABI promised, so the ABI check should be part of release process.
> If there is ABI breakage, it should be reported by upstream, not later find
> by downstream

If you want someone to do something in OSS, you should do.

> * I'll definitely take a look on rubyci.org and I'll try to make the
> abi-check failing, when the ABI is broken. I hope, that release maintainers
> will pay attention.

rubyci.org doesn't show vividly abi breakage yet.
It exists only in the detail of debian's result.

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