Bug 536852 (ruby19-removal)

Summary:	[Tracker] Ruby 1.9 deprecation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) <mrueg>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Ruby Team <ruby>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	tdalman
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	480574, 528568, 535764, 540650, 541634, 541636, 541638, 541640, 541648, 541650, 541652, 547768, 547770, 547772, 547774, 547776, 547828, 547832, 547834, 550514, 550618, 551970, 552244, 552436, 554164, 554534, 555836, 555852, 555924, 555926
Bug Blocks:	536362

Description Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-01-17 15:27:36 UTC

No talk here please.

See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Ruby/Ruby_1.9_deprecation

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2015-10-11 13:50:21 UTC

Ruby 1.9 has now been masked for removal.

Comment 2 Émeric Maschino 2015-10-29 06:35:54 UTC

(In reply to Hans de Graaff from comment #1)
> Ruby 1.9 has now been masked for removal.

Problem is that Ruby 2.0 [1] and 2.1 [2] all fail to build on ia64. Removing Ruby 1.9 will thus leave ia64 without a working Ruby implementation...

     Émeric


[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513508
[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561780

Comment 3 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2015-11-08 07:25:05 UTC

(In reply to Émeric Maschino from comment #2)

> Problem is that Ruby 2.0 [1] and 2.1 [2] all fail to build on ia64. Removing
> Ruby 1.9 will thus leave ia64 without a working Ruby implementation...

Both ruby-2.0.0_p645 and ruby-2.1.6-r1 have been marked stable by the ia64 team so these should work at least in some cases.

Ruby 1.9 is deprecated upstream and no longer receives security fixes. Furthermore, more and more ruby code no longer works on Ruby 1.9. Even if this was the last version supporting ia64 we would still need to remove it.