[DRE-maint] Distributability of Ruby's PDF::Writer

[James Healy]

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Have you contacted the upstream author of PDF::Writer about packaging
> his lib in Debian? Austin Ziegler is a real asshole (and I mean it). He
> has been spreading FUD about Debian on all the threads about packaging
> or rubygems on ruby-core@ and ruby-talk@, turning them into useless
> flamewars. Amongst other things, he recommends Debian users to install
> ruby from source on those ruby mailing lists, because ruby is so
> fucked up on Debian. (according to him, of course)

Austin recently handed over maintainence of PDF::Writer to some
developers that are significantly more approachable.

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ruby-pdf-discuss/2007-November/000119.html

-- James Healy <jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com>  Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:27:21 +1100
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