Comment 31 for bug 145267

On 12/07/2008, mathew <email address hidden> wrote:
> Given the continuing intransigence of the debian maintainers, I've been
> wondering if it isn't time for a bunch of Ruby folk who use
> debian/Ubuntu to put together an alternative Ruby release as a single
> .deb that actually works properly.

That work has already started mathew. I work at Brightbox, which
you'll know as the UK Ruby on Rails host. We really need apt and gem
to play nicely together for our next generation of Rails services.

So I've kicked off the ~ubuntu-ruby and ~ubuntu-ruby-backports groups
on Launchpad to try and drive work into improving the Ruby and Rails
packaging systems (along with lots of other stuff to do with our
virtualisation offering). There are packages in the PPAs there -
mostly straight backports at present.

I've already talked to Eric Hodel who looks after Rubygems and he has
put installation hooks into edge Rubygems to allow us to call out pre-
and post- install if we want.

If there is community interest in helping us improve Rubygems (ie
you're going to do some coding/testing/documenting, not just cheer on
from the sidelines) then I'll upload the current work to github and we
can take it from there.

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Neil Wilson