From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T10:23:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Debian

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 07:44:41AM +0900, Shot - Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> mathew:
> 
> > ruby
> > ri1.8
> > rdoc1.8
> 
> Or, better yet, ri and rdoc (dummy packages depending on the latest ri
> and RDoc versions, just like the ruby one depends on the latest Ruby)
> - this way you'll get automagically upgraded to 2.0 if/when the next
> Debian stable ships it.

The point of Stable is that it doesn't change, so that you'll never have
to worry about something that works suddenly breaking when you're doing
security updates or adding software.  Thus, one tends to not see new
packages appear in Stable unless absolutely necessary for security
reasons.

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