Version of rubygems is so old that it causes troubles

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:33:18 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum 
<lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
>On 17/03/09 at 23:13 +0200, Vesa Vilhonen wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Rubygems available from the intrepid repository has so old version
>
>Rubygems release dates:
>2008-06-21 => 1.2.0
>2008-09-25 => 1.3.0
>2008-10-28 => 1.3.1
>
>So, it's about as recent as all other software packages in Ubuntu
>intrepid.
>
>> that some gems won't install with it
>
>That's a problem. Rubygems developers are so bad at providing backward
>compatibility that some newer gems can't install with a version of the
>packaging system released less than a year ago.
>
>> and it has been crippled from updating itself.
>
>That's your problem :-)
>
>> 1.3.1 is the latest version available. Please let me know if I 
>> can help with this.
>
>It should be possible to provide a -backports package for 1.3.1. (it's
>already available in debian experimental)

We still have 1.2.0 for Jaunty too.  Would recommend we update to 1.3.1  
for this release (is there a reason that would be relevant to Ubuntu that 
1.3.1 isn't in Unstable yet)?

Scott K