[Bug 302990] Re: rubygems1.8 package out of date

[Bryan McLellan]

The problem with --system is that the package updates itself. This
breaks the debian package [1]. If you then uninstalled or upgraded using
the packaging system, unknown things would happen because it wouldn't
know anything about what rubygems had done to itself. See also the
current version of debian's policy on rubygems [2], which is in the
process of having some revamping [3] done at the moment with the help of
the ruby community.

You really should uninstall the debian package and install from source
if you really want to use 'gem update --system'. Personally, I've built
from the debian experimental source and maintain the package in a local
repository.

The last time I spoke to the MOTU team on IRC a month ago about trying
to get some ruby packages into Ubuntu, they expressed that they were
heavily understaffed and with jaunty coming up didn't to maintain new
packages. I'm getting the packages into Debian instead and we'll pick
them up on the next sync I suppose. I did have an offer to pull them
from NEW before jaunty ships but I'm doubtful that it will happen.

With that in mind and since we're past FeatureFreeze for Jaunty [4],
it's pretty likely we won't get a new version of gems in 9.04. I agree
this is hugely disappointing. Canonical/Ubuntu's promise of a regular
release schedule is useless to us server folks who aren't getting any
love. Build your own packages and maintain a local repository if you
want to use Ubuntu as a server platform in the interim.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgems-ruby/+bug/206596
[2] http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html
[3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers/2009-February/003382.html
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseSchedule

** Changed in: libgems-ruby (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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rubygems1.8 package out of date
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/302990
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