From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T17:11:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Debian

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:45:28PM +0900, angus wrote:
> [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.

Sorry, didn't mean to get pedantic.  Yes, you're right.

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