[Bug 260236] Re: Please update libgems-ruby backport from Intrepid

[agent 8131]

> which appears to pull in its own ruby

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

There is however a serious problem with this request in that the
libgems-ruby1.8 binary package has been removed.  The correct request
would be to backport rubygems and rubygems1.8.  However, this would not
be without its problems.  Assuming these backports were completed and a
user installed them they might then be tempted to purge the libgems-ruby
package which would most likely erase all of their downloaded gems.  The
backport would probably best be modified to create a transitional
package for libgems-ruby1.8.  In fact, that's what the intrepid package
probably should have done in the first place as users upgrading to
Intrepid will face this same problem.  That may actually be an SRU
worthy bug that if fixed would also resolve the backporting problems.

The other issue to be aware with regard to regressions is that that
there is already a backport of this package.  The existing backport
already has the potential to introduce incompatibilities compared to the
fairly old version in 8.04.  In other words, a user who has chosen to
use the backport has already gone through whatever problems might come
up.  A user who chooses the package in the future will go through such
problems regardless of whether backports contains 1.1.1 or 1.2.0.  While
1.1.1 is much better than 0.9.4, 1.2.0 is much better than that.  And
while the likelihood of problems jumping from 0.9.4 to 1.2.0 is
significant, it's no more (and might even be less so) than then jump to
1.1.1.  So it makes sense if the backport is already present to keep it
up to date and matched to a version that is actually being supported by
Debian and Ubuntu rather than the intermediate and unsupported version
present in backports now.

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Please update libgems-ruby backport from Intrepid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260236
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