reassign 533334 rubygems thanks If anything can be done about this wishlist bug, it can only happen in the rubygems package. Dealing with this in each individual Ruby package would be too much trouble.
Personally, I do not use rubygems. I believe that having two largely incompatible packaging systems on one computer is just asking for trouble, and dpkg beats rubygems in at least one regard: it handles all kinds of packages, not just Ruby libraries. My solution to your problem would be to package typo as a Debian package. To see how it's done, you can check sources of samizdat and webgen packages in Debian. If you are unable to do it yourself, you can also file an RFP bug against wnpp metapackage. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Andreas Krüger<andreas.krue...@famsik.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Package: libsqlite3-ruby1.8 > Version: 1.2.2-1 > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: Daigo Moriwaki <da...@debian.org> > > Hello, > > I wanted to install the "typo" Ruby gem. As I found no Debian package to that > end, I tried > > gem install typo > > For all I can tell, this recursively calls, in effect (among other things), > > gem install sqlite3-ruby > > Why would it do that? I do have libsqlite3-ruby1.8 already installed on the > system! > > So, with this bug report, I wish to request: > > The fact that sqlite3-ruby functionality is already available through > libsqlite3-ruby1.8 should be made available to gem, if libsqlite3-ruby1.8 > happens to be installed. > > (See bug 533304 for a fairly chaotic story that came out of this.) > > More generally: Gem should not try to redo work already done by Debian > developers, if that work is already present on the installation system through > installed Debian packages. > > Indeed, this is probably a somewhat general issue, effecting not only > libsqlite3-ruby1.8, but also other gems repackaged by Debian. I'm not sure > what > the correct package to report this would be. So I report it with the package > that caused the trouble in my particular case. Feel free to move. > > Please note that I don't ask for the much tougher reverse direction here. > Namely, that gem knows to install Debian packages instead of doing the usual > gem > thing. While that would be nice to have, too, it'll be a lot more difficult. > > This is the easy part: Just having gem know about what's there through > Debian-ly > installed packages. This should be relatively straightforward to implement (I > think), and offer some valuable benefit. > > Regards, and thank you for providing fine software, > > Andreas Krüger > > - -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.1 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages libsqlite3-ruby1.8 depends on: > ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libruby1.8 1.8.7.72-3 Libraries necessary to run Ruby > 1. > ii libsqlite3-0 3.5.9-6 SQLite 3 shared library > > libsqlite3-ruby1.8 recommends no packages. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAko3x6IACgkQnWrlKaIH40BaBwCfe8SDXCQq696iJ+v+ft4l3zGI > R3MAnA3GBugABxSXPyAeSDm4FuoI8psn > =pnr3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Dmitry Borodaenko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
