I want to second the idea of -dev package as a dependency for libgems
(or gems) package. I needed to install a gem and I got errors, which
started with mkmf.
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ruby1.8-dev should be recommended, not suggested
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244742
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Wesleylaunch...@opperschaap.net wrote:
I want to second the idea of -dev package as a dependency for libgems
(or gems) package. I needed to install a gem and I got errors, which
started with mkmf.
Not all gems require a development environment to install, so I
I wholeheartedly agree that diverging from Debian packages is a bad
thing, and got bitten by it way too many times when backporting packages
(and having to choose between an older Ubuntu version, a newer Debian
version and forward-porting the Ubuntu-specific changes to the newer
Debian source).
I
Shot,
Many Ubuntu packages are direct sync's from Debian packages which is
considered upstream from Ubuntu. While we could fork the packaging and
add our own changes, that adds considerable work to each new release of
the package. Changes and improvements should go as far upstream as
If the resolution of this bug is that rubygems depends (or recommends)
on libruby-dev, it should also depend/recommend build-essentials.
Nathan: I don’t really agree with the ‘you should report this bug on the
Debian BTS’ idea. First, I’m an Ubuntu user, I might have no idea
whether Debian’s
