Package: rubygems Version: 1.0.1-4 Severity: minor At present, if you install the 'rubygems' package on a minimal system, you don't have the ability to build any arch-native gems, since none of the necessary development tools are installed.
I believe that the tools required to build arch-native gems would exist on systems that have installed rubygems in all but an unusual situation, thus justifying a Recommends relationship as per Policy 7.2. Furthermore, hunting down every package that's actually needed by hand is a bit of a pest. A strict dependency is not justified, IMO, because you can install some gems without needing the development-related packages (arch-indep gems that only ship Ruby code). The packages that I have found I have needed are: ruby1.8-dev make gcc I ask that these packages be included in the Recommends: list for the rubygems package. (As an aside, I also needed libc6-dev, but I believe that ruby1.8-dev should declare that dependency, so I'm chasing that one up separately) - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
