On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:29:39PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > All that said, should I hold off uploading libactivesupport-ruby since > > it will depend on libtzinfo-ruby? > Well, ideally, you (or upstream) would create something for ruby that > works properly in the sense that it uses the tzinfo data. The timezone > definitions are enough of a dance as is (because they seem to change too > frequent, just look at stable,volatile,testing-updtates) and make > whatever needs timezone information in ruby use that. I'm all for > batteries included and all that, but for Debian users there really is no > added value and enough hassle in the current approach to not want that. > As for holding back stuff, I'll leave that to your judgement (and your > expectation how fast you can resolve stuff with upstream). > OK. I understand the need to get this sorted out rather quickly. However, I think that leaving the current libactivesupport-ruby as is may have the potential for more problems (using embedded sources of other packages is generally considered bad). So, I will go ahead and perform the upload. I will contact upstream and least inform them of the problem and see what can be done.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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