[DRE-maint] [Bug 634137] Re: RubyGems 1.9 (1.3.5) is broken/unsupported on Ruby 1.9.0

[Clint Byrum]

chocolateboy, thank you for taking the time to file this bug report and
help us make Ubuntu better.

I sympathize with the issue completely as I've seen other reports of
brokenness w/ ruby 1.9.0 on lucid. I'm not really sure what we can do.
If these two components from lucid (ruby 1.9.0 and rubygems 1.3.5) are
known to be incompatible upstream, then there's not a lot we can do in
the general sense. As "broken" as ruby 1.9.0 may be, changing the
release of ruby 1.9 or rubygems is not something that would be done
lightly, and thus far there doesn't seem to be a good reason to do so.

If you file a bug report for the specific issues, we can look at cherry-
picking fixes for SRU based on their severity.

As such, I'm going to close this bug as Won't Fix. If you have a more
specific case to report please do so in a new bug report.

** Changed in: libgems-ruby (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  RubyGems 1.9 (1.3.5) is broken/unsupported on Ruby 1.9.0

Status in “libgems-ruby” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  From
  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=575&aid=28551&group_id=126

      RubyGems is not supported on Ruby 1.9.0.

      Ruby 1.9.0 is not a production-ready release.

      You will need to upgrade your ruby.

  Note there are several other showstopping RubyGems 1.3.5 bugs on Ruby
  1.9.0 in the SourceForge tracker. It's fundamentally broken and the
  RubyGems maintainers a) don't support 1.9.0 and b) clearly deprecate
  its use in Debian and Ubuntu on the grounds that it's not production
  ready.

  This looks to have been fixed in Maverick (which is currently using
  Ruby 1.9.1), but on Lucid we're stuck with a broken RubyGems and a
  broken Ruby, neither of which are obvious until you take the (in my
  case considerable) time to file a RubyGems/Ruby bug.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: rubygems1.9 1.3.5-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Sep  9 16:22:28 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: libgems-ruby