From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbLVz-0004zE-8e for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:23:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbLVu-00056W-8e for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:23:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gbLVu-00056K-5N for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:23:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gbLVt-0006UI-Ua for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:23:01 -0500 Subject: [bug#33846] [PATCH] gnu: ruby: Remove versions 1.8, 2.1 and 2.2. Resent-Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 09:22:49 +0100 From: Pjotr Prins Message-ID: <20181224082249.sz7llwmjval5kba2@thebird.nl> References: <87lg4il99m.fsf@gmail.com> <87ftuod1ky.fsf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ftuod1ky.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Alex Vong Cc: 33846@debbugs.gnu.org On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 05:39:09PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > Hello, > > This patch removes all ruby versions which have reached EOL since they > no longer receive official security updates. > > However, please do complain if you need to use one of these > versions. IMO, it is better to have a central place for them to receive > (unofficial) security updates (e.g. Debian will support ruby 2.1 until > 2020), than to roll your own security updates (which is error-prone and > duplicate effort). > Thanks Alex, No objection. Note that we now have the channel mechanism to suport older versions of software we don't need to maintain older versions inside GNU Guix if there are no down stream dependencies. Pj.