On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:36:32PM -0800, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote: > Hello folks > > There been a packaging issue with 'ruby' package that annoyed me for a > while. The problem comes from the fact that ruby-lang.org source > tarballs contain ruby sources itself *and* some third party packages > from rubygems.org. The third-party gems shipped by 'ruby' tarball are: > minitest, net-telnet, did_you_mean, power_assert, rake, test-unit, > xmlrpc, rdoc. Currently we repack these gems and ship it as a part of > ruby Arch package. > > Because gems are bundled with ruby package we have no way to update > gems separately. All we can do is to wait until ruby developers update > their bundle and release it. > > The plan is to split these gems from 'ruby' package and install it > independently from what ruby developers bundle. Upcoming ruby changes > do that - ruby-2.5.0-4 will not include any of the third-party gems > mentioned above. > > Two popular packages - rake and rdoc will get Arch packages (ruby-rake > and ruby-rdoc respectively). Other gems need to be installed either > from AUR or from gem.
Hello Anatol, Good decision! I have rebuild asciidoctor with ruby-rdoc as makedependency. Shall I move it to testing and you move all packages in one turn over to the stable repositories? Will you create a todo for it? Chris
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