[DRE-maint] Bug#448639: Bug#448639: /usr/local

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 31/08/10 at 09:25 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> 
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Daigo Moriwaki wrote:
> 
> > Thank you all for the invaluable comments.
> > 
> > We, the Debian Ruby packagers, have decided to make a change on this issue.
> > 
> > As of Ruby 1.9.2, we are merging the rubygems1.9.1 package into the new
> > ruby1.9.1 (1.9.2.0-1) package since the upstream seems to have integrated
> > Rubygems with the core more tightly[1]. You will no longer install rubygems1.9.1
> > as a separate package.
> > 
> > The ruby1.8 package is another story. We will not make significant changes on
> > ruby1.8 since ruby1.9.1 is (hopefully) getting into the main stream and we'd
> > like to make more efforts on ruby1.9.1
> > 
> 
> This seems like an excellent and well thought out solution to this
> bug report in general, and also to future maintainability of rubygems.
> 
> I actually think its also a nice way of gracefully declining to
> change long established behavior in rubygems for 1.8. Users now
> have a very clear line they can draw in the sand, and another reason
> to move forward with the new version of ruby.

Well, I don't think that the behaviour of rubygems for ruby 1.8 and
1.9.X should be different. It would be great to make the change for both
versions in squeeze.

Lucas