From: Christophe Grandsire Date: 2005-10-17T20:10:10+09:00 Subject: Re: ot: debian in ruby Selon "Pe�a, Botp" : > i hope the ruby maintainer for debian frequents this list since i'd like to > ask when will the ruby deb package be updated to ruby1.8.3 (it is still > 1.8.2). > Disclaimer: I'm not the ruby package maintainer, nor any package maintainer, just another Rubyist using Debian (as a desktop, so I'm happy with unstable :) ). It is already at 1.8.3 in unstable, so I'd guess you'll only have to wait a month or two if you're running testing. If you are running stable, then the bets are off. It's not only about security, it's also about running well with everything else in the distribution, and in all the platforms that Debian supports. Also, IIRC in stable version numbers are frozen, unless a security issue makes updating necessary. I think minor release updates do happen though, so maybe Ruby 1.8.3 will find its way in stable before the next Debian release. I wouldn't count too much on it though. If your server isn't too mission-critical, you might consider running testing. Testing is already extremely stable as it is, and the only problem that was the lack of security updates has now been solved. For a non-mission-critical server, I believe Debian testing is now a valid choice, and it stays closer to up-to-date software than stable. It isn't cutting edge either, but for servers that's actually a good thing :) . Be aware though that testing hasn't been as much proof-tested as stable has (of course not, it *is* the playground where all the testing for stable happens :) ), so you might want to be more careful with updates then you would be with stable. Stable can safely be set on automatic updates. Apart from security updates, I'm not sure testing can. -- Christophe Grandsire. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.