Re: Removing ruby22?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 10:22:03PM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> In message <20180623091033.337zxuianzoor5hw@danbala>
>> 	on Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:10:33 +0200,
>> 	Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> > 
>> > https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/06/20/support-of-ruby-2-2-has-ended/
>> > 
>> > says
>> > 
>> > "We announce that all support of the Ruby 2.2 series has ended.
>> Yes, I know.
>> 
>> > For that reason, I suggest we remove ruby22 from pkgsrc.
>> Only problem is ruby22 only pacakges: ruby-redmine and its friends.
>
> The changelog for redmine 3.4.0 claims that it supports ruby-2.4 (see
> also https://www.redmine.org/issues/25048).
>
> ryoon (MAINTAINER), can you please update the package to 3.4.x?

Sure, but that's a clue that despite upstream ruby stopping support for
2.2, that it isn't really "no longer useful, and nobody should be using
it", so deletion seems premature.