[DRE-maint] Bug#499859: libinline-ruby: Requires write access to the invoking user's home directory

[Gunnar Wolf]

Package: libinline-ruby
Version: 3.6.7-1
Severity: normal

libinline-ruby requires write access to the invoking user's home
directory, for creating a ~/.ruby_inline/ directory to cache the
compiled C code. Some issues are detailed in this mail:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers/2008-September/003140.html

I just uploaded to NEW libimage-science-ruby, which depends on this
module. I added this README.Debian:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ruby-extras/packages/libimage-science-ruby/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

A similar README.Debian could be included in this module. Or, for
bonus points, some logic could be added to open a temporary directory
(i.e. by using mktemp or Tempfile).

Thanks,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libinline-ruby depends on:
ii  libinline-ruby1.8             3.6.7-1    Ruby library for embedding C/++ ex

libinline-ruby recommends no packages.

libinline-ruby suggests no packages.

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