> which appears to pull in its own ruby I'm not sure what you mean by that.
There is however a serious problem with this request in that the libgems-ruby1.8 binary package has been removed. The correct request would be to backport rubygems and rubygems1.8. However, this would not be without its problems. Assuming these backports were completed and a user installed them they might then be tempted to purge the libgems-ruby package which would most likely erase all of their downloaded gems. The backport would probably best be modified to create a transitional package for libgems-ruby1.8. In fact, that's what the intrepid package probably should have done in the first place as users upgrading to Intrepid will face this same problem. That may actually be an SRU worthy bug that if fixed would also resolve the backporting problems. The other issue to be aware with regard to regressions is that that there is already a backport of this package. The existing backport already has the potential to introduce incompatibilities compared to the fairly old version in 8.04. In other words, a user who has chosen to use the backport has already gone through whatever problems might come up. A user who chooses the package in the future will go through such problems regardless of whether backports contains 1.1.1 or 1.2.0. While 1.1.1 is much better than 0.9.4, 1.2.0 is much better than that. And while the likelihood of problems jumping from 0.9.4 to 1.2.0 is significant, it's no more (and might even be less so) than then jump to 1.1.1. So it makes sense if the backport is already present to keep it up to date and matched to a version that is actually being supported by Debian and Ubuntu rather than the intermediate and unsupported version present in backports now. -- Please update libgems-ruby backport from Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260236 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
