From: angus <angus@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T14:45:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Debian

[Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, 2005-12-24 02.23 CET]
> 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.

Anyway, whether you don't want to upgrade to the next stable release when it
appears, or whether you do want to, selecting the dummy, generic-named
packages is better.

Cheers.