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Some debian developers discussed the split of Ruby standard libraries and gave a proposal to add two new packages and change the meaning of the current ‘ruby’ package at the debian-ruby list (not archived yet) (I need to modify dependency lines in my tDiary packages). I am sure that it will soon be available and I’d like to say “Wait a minute, it is too early to leave Debian.”

I like Debian’s Ruby because Ukai-san and Yamada-san are members of its maintainers. They are super hackers of Debian and Ruby. Ukai-san is the leader of Debian.jp and the president of Japan Linux Association. Yamada-san seems to maintain Vine’s Ruby also, however, make Debian’s package at first.

See the changelog.Debian.gz at /usr/share/doc/ruby1.8 in Debian. You can find Debian’s Ruby more stable than the original. I appreciate their contribution. I cite a recent entry. Who else can do that?

ruby1.8 (1.8.2-1) unstable; urgency=high

  * akira yamada 
  - new upstream version, 1.8.2:
      - removed debian/patches/{100_cvs_updates.patch,801_syck_segv.patch,
        802_syck_segv.patch}.  they ware included 1.8.2.
      - (urgency high) fixed segv bugs:
          - Process.groups= dumps core again.  [ruby-dev:25285]
          - YAML::Syck::Parser#load dumps core.  [ruby-core:03973]
          - IO.select dumps core.  [ruby-dev:25312]
      - fixed bugs:
          - prohibit to change access mode for special IO ports  (stdin,
            stdout and stderr).  [ruby-dev:25225]
  - added debian/patches/100_cvs_updates.patch:
      - (urgency high) fixed segv bugs:
          - String#center dumps core.  [ruby-dev:25341]
          - require "openssl" dumps core.  [ruby-dev:25325]
          - Zlib memory leak.  [ruby-list:39235][ruby-dev:25309]
          - String#ljust dumps core again.  [ruby-dev:25367]
          - bmcall() causes core dump.  [ruby-dev:25366]
          - Module#autoload? dumps core.  [ruby-dev:25373]
          - OpenSSL::Netscape::SPKI#challenge= dumps core.  [ruby-dev:25359]
          - Segfault in Thread#initialize / caller  [ruby-core:04067]
      - fixed bugs:
          - webrick/httpauth bugs.
            [ruby-list:40467][ruby-list:40482][ruby-dev:25336]
          - rand uniformity  [ruby-dev:25396]

 -- akira yamada   Fri,  7 Jan 2005 11:17:10 +0900