Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost> writes: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 02:19:41PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: >> >> 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. > > Well, I disagree. redmine-3.4.0 supporting ruby-2.4 was released > nearly a year ago. We're just behind in the pkgsrc update. I didn't realize it was a year ago. My real point is that "upstream stopped maintaining" isn't the right question, but "and anybody using this is out of line" -- which usually doesn't get discussed.
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