-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: libsqlite3-ruby1.8 Version: 1.2.2-1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: Daigo Moriwaki <[email protected]>
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----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
