[DRE-maint] Bug#588125: Bug#588125: rubygems doesn't work

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 13/08/10 at 13:02 +0200, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> Package: rubygems1.9.1
> Version: 1.3.7-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> >From the comments in the redmine thread above, rubygems for 1.9.x should be
> taken from the Ruby sources, not the standalone rubygems project anymore.
> 
> Unfortunately, since ruby1.9.1~1.9.2 has been pushed to testing, not
> only there is currently no way to get a working rubygems for 1.9.x
> on Debian, but that is going to be the case for squeeze as well
> until it gets fixed.
> 
> Would not it be possible that the ruby maintainers simply install
> the rubygems version from Ruby itself and conflict: with
> rubygems1.9.1 ?

I think that the appropriate course of action would be to get rubygems
fixed so that it works with 1.9.1. I don't think that having several
rubygems codebases in the archive is really a solution.

I'm currently on vacation, so could you talk to the upstream rubygems
developers about that?

- Lucas