Port deprecation reason ``Does not work with Ruby 1.9'' -- what should I do?

[Steve Wills]

> On 3/11/2013 4:13 PM, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>> Hello, Ports.
>>
>>   My  port  (devel/ruby-subversion) is marked for deletion in 2 months
>>  because `` Does not work with Ruby 1.9''. What should I do?
>>
>>    To be honest, I know nothing about Ruby and this port is part of
>>  official subversion distribution. Only thing I could do is to check
>>  that it builds and pass "make tests".
>>
>>   Why port is marked for deletion? Is ruby 1.8 deprecated and removed?
>>  Why can't port be for ruby 1.8 only?
>
> I believe 1.8 is EOL in June.
>
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/
>
> I can't find anything more recent confirming this though.

Yep, that's correct as far as I know.

>>
>>   Only tyhing I could do right now -- ask upstream is ruby 1.9
>>  support planned for future releases, but I can not influence
>>  upstream to provide (or doesn't provide) such support and I cannot
>>  hack sources to make it support ruby 1.9 :(

Just out of curiosity, I did a search and found this:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4083

So perhaps it's fixable.

Steve