Hi, Some comments: - debian/operating_system.rb is not properly licensed, and not mentioned in debian/copyright. - I'm still not convinced by your update-alternatives hack. This should *really* go upstream, so it's fixed for every distro, not just Ubuntu. - why the switch to simple-patchsys? - you base your version on a git snapshot, with a >5kloc diff compared to the current version in debian unstable. Is that really reasonable, since we are far in the Ubuntu release cycle AFAIK? - have you talked to Daigo Moriwaki about those deep changes to his Debian package? If not, when do you plan to? - You never answered by question about a bug# in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgems-ruby/+bug/145267/comments/42 . - What's the Ubuntu policy about hosting VCS branches for packages? Shouldn't you use bzr on launchpad instead?
Most importantly, your motivations sound unclear to me: > > No, it's a patch that makes rubygems work better on systems with > > update-alternatives, while you should aim at a global solution instead. > > No I aim for the simplest solution that will solve the most pain in > the shortest possible time. Others can then generalise that if they > want. My time is paid for don't forget. > > From an Ubuntu point of view a superior package is good, because it > gives people a reason why they should use Ubuntu and switch to the > package rather than continue to mess around with the source package as > they do now. > > Certainly I'm not going to get my 200 odd customers to move away from > source installation without a nice fat carrot to offer them. If I understand it correctly, you want to give Ubuntu a competitive advantage by not working with upstream to address this problem globally. That doesn't sound right. In conclusion, with my Debian ruby maintainer and pkg-ruby-extras member hats, I still don't think this is the way to go. But you are free to ignore my comments of course, as you did in the past. -- Add rubygems bin to PATH https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145267 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
