Ruby 1.9.3 rebuild

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

And one more thing:
I have all the specs and new patches ready, so I will put them some place public so that you can download them and use them when testing something or when actually migrating to Ruby 1.9.3 some time (hopefully soon).

Bohuslav.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bohuslav Kabrda" <bkabrda at redhat.com>
> To: "Ruby SIG mailing list" <ruby-sig at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7:53:39 AM
> Subject: Ruby 1.9.3 rebuild
> 
> Hi guys,
> as Mamoru noted on one of my bugzillas for build failures with Ruby
> 1.9.3, I decided I will move all the agenda here for the time being.
> I have been working past two weeks on rebuild of all the
> Ruby/Rubygems dependent packages and got some failures. There are
> basically two types of problematic packages (most of the packages
> work ok, so we shouldn't run into any serious problems):
> 
> 1) Packages that work in some way, but some tests fail - I usually
> reported the failures upstream or proposed the patches/fixes/pull
> requests.
> 2) Packages with C extensions/C bindings that even fail to build due
> to changes in the Ruby 1.9.3 C API. Unluckily, some of these are no
> longer maintained by upstream and we will have to decide what to do.
> The still maintained, I also reported upstream.
> 
> So I'm going to stop reporting this to bugzilla until we (hopefully)
> get a special tag in Koji, so that we can solve as many problems as
> we can here. The only thing we need to do here is to decide what to
> do with packages that don't work and their upstreams are
> dead/unresponsive. So for each of them, I will write a separate mail
> to this mailing list, including the detailed info on how it failed
> and my suggestion what to do with that and we may have a talk about
> it. For some of the packages I already created Bugzillas, so we can
> solve those there and not duplicate them on this list.
> 
> I hope you all like this idea and that you are ok with it.
> Regards,
> Bohuslav.
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