From: Dmitry Borodaenko <d.borodaenko@...>
Date: 2003-09-14T18:33:40+09:00
Subject: Re: actual debian ruby packages are unuseable with tk

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 04:01:17AM +0900, Ferenc Engard wrote:
> Dear debian ruby package maintainers,
> 
> I just tell here, that both the 1.6.8-6 and the 1.8.0-2 ruby packages
> are break on this simple script:
> 
> -----------------------
> require 'tk.rb'
> 
> begin
> raise "blah"
> rescue
> puts "rescued"
> end
> -----------------------

Hm, hangs for me with 1.6.8-7, too. Ruby/Tk experts around?

> This script will never return with both versions of ruby. I am waiting
> on the new versions. (I hope the bugfix was backported to 1.6.8; if
> not, then I wait for the 1.8.0 version of DBI, too...)

Debian packages of DBI for Ruby 1.8.0 are already waiting in queue to
Debian/unstable. I will also put it up on people.d.o soon, as I think it
will take a couple more weeks to finish with Ruby 1.6 -> 1.8 transition.

-- 
Dmitry Borodaenko