From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date: 2005-10-17T20:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: ot: debian in ruby

Selon Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@free.fr>:

> Selon "Pe�a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com>:
>
> > 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).
> >
>
>
> 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.

I forgot one thing. You might want to look at backports. There is a backport of
Ruby 1.8.2 for Woody, so there's no reason why one wouldn't be able to find one
of Ruby 1.8.3 for Sarge. I haven't found one, but that's maybe because Sarge is
still relatively new and backports when the only difference is 1 unit in the
third version number are usually not worth it.
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