[DRE-maint] Bug#405789: rubygems: rubygems is too dumb to recognize debian packages

[Lucas Nussbaum]

severity 405789 wishlist
tags 405789 - patch
tags 405789 + wontfix
thanks

On 27/05/07 at 17:57 +0900, Daigo Moriwaki wrote:
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> Hi, Jürgen
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> Sorry for the late reply.
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> Jürgen Strobel wrote:
> > Example: 
> > 
> > aptitude install rake rails
> > gem install mongrel
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> > gem will insist on installing dependencies, including rake. A really
> > nicely patched up rubygems could autodetect the rake package.
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> Your request is ideal. However, we, Debian developers, have no good solution
> yet. To support integration of rubygems and dpkg for a long time, more
> consideration (not just patch rubygems.rb) is required.

Also, we would probably need to talk with upstream again. Debian isn't
the only distro facing those issues.

Anyway, tagging the bug accordingly.
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