[DRE-maint] Call for review: new version of "Position on rubygems"

[Bryan McLellan]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf at gwolf.org> wrote:
> metadata.gz). And although data.tar.gz unpacks on the current
> directory, I guess we could save quite a bit of animosity by handling
> gems as we handle a regular orig.tar.gz.

The gem tar format also has timestamp issues on the files that cause
warnings and add to being dirty. Repacking the tarball to fix this yet
another step when it'd be so much better to start with a clean
tarball.