[DRE-maint] Bug#585838: rubygems1.8: writes gems only readable by root

[Drake Wilson]

Package: rubygems1.8
Version: 1.3.6-2
Severity: normal

Installing gems with [sudo gem install ...] and a user umask of 0077
seems to create all the files in /var/lib/gems/1.8 with that umask so
that they're only readable by root, thus defeating the point of the
install.  A [chmod -R a+rX] resolves this as far as I know, but that's
a potentially fragile solution.  I think it would be preferable for
'gem' to explicitly set the umask to 022 in this context, as this
would be more consistent with other extant methods of doing systemwide
software installation.

   ---> Drake Wilson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-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/dash

Versions of packages rubygems1.8 depends on:
ii  rdoc1.8                      1.8.7.249-2 Generate documentation from Ruby s
ii  ruby1.8                      1.8.7.249-2 Interpreter of object-oriented scr

rubygems1.8 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rubygems1.8 suggests:
ii  build-essential              11.5        Informational list of build-essent
ii  ruby1.8-dev                  1.8.7.249-2 Header files for compiling extensi
pn  rubygems-doc                 <none>      (no description available)

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