{"id":448,"date":"2010-02-10T14:38:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2010-02-10T14:38:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:38:33","slug":"debian-squeeze-ubuntu-lucid-and-ruby-1-9-2-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Debian Squeeze, Ubuntu Lucid and Ruby 1.9.2: NO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s some hype in the Ubuntu community about Ruby 1.9.2, so let&#8217;s clarify: it would be totally irresponsible to try to ship Ruby 1.9.2 in Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu Lucid.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby 1.9.2 has not been released yet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp\/cgi-bin\/scat.rb\/ruby\/ruby-core\/23977\">June 2009: The release schedule for 1.9.2 was announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\/en\/news\/2009\/07\/20\/ruby-1-9-2-preview-1-released\/\">mid-July 2009: Ruby 1.9.2 preview 1 was released<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/svn.ruby-lang.org\/cgi-bin\/viewvc.cgi\/tags\/v1_9_2_preview2\/bcc32\/?view=log\">September 2009: 1.9.2 preview 2 was tagged in SVN, but not announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp\/cgi-bin\/scat.rb\/ruby\/ruby-core\/25707\">September 2009: The release plans were cancelled<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp\/cgi-bin\/scat.rb\/ruby\/ruby-core\/25841\">October 2009: A meeting was announced to discussed new release plans<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t think that the outcome was made public<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/svn.ruby-lang.org\/cgi-bin\/viewvc.cgi\/branches\/\">Ruby 1.9.2 has not been branched off trunk yet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s where we stand now. Even if surprises are possible, it&#8217;s very unlikely that Ruby 1.9.2 will be released before Lucid&#8217;s release (or, what the real requirement is, before Lucid&#8217;s freeze). So we are sticking with 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (1.9.0 will go away before the release).<\/p>\n<p>If you can point to specific commits that fix real bugs in 1.9.1, and could be backported to the Debian package, feel free to notify the Debian Ruby maintainers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s some hype in the Ubuntu community about Ruby 1.9.2, so let&#8217;s clarify: it would be totally irresponsible to try to ship Ruby 1.9.2 in Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu Lucid. Ruby 1.9.2 has not been released yet: June 2009: The release schedule for 1.9.2 was announced mid-July 2009: Ruby 1.9.2 preview 1 was released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian","category-planetubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}