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imo, I don't think Debian and Ubuntu should do this - it's not really their job. Distros should, for the most part, just be packaging upstream code and not main
by comice 15y ago
imo, I don't think Debian and Ubuntu should do this - it's not really their job. Distros should, for the most part, just be packaging upstream code and not maintaining an unofficial fork.
Though counter to this, RedHat basically maintain their own fork of the Linux kernel but it's a bit of a special case, and they do employ full time kernel developers to do it!
- sciurus 15y agoI was assuming use of tcmalloc was a supported option when configuring and building Ruby. If it's not, then yeah, probably not the right thing for a distro to do. If a ruby release didn't have a working debugger but this could be easily patched, then I would expect distros to do that. However, I'm not familiar enough with the ruby ecosystem to know the context of "patched Ruby 1.9.3 to export the right symbols to work with ruby-debug"