Hi Ben,
Thanks muchly for the update. I am actually a debian (Ubuntu) usermyself. Love
the system, hate what they did to Ruby - just didn't havetime to catch up on
updates as much as I should :-)
Cheers,Assaph
On 2/15/06, BG - Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Assaph,>> Instead of
repeatedly slandering the Debian packagers, it would be more> constructive to
actually study the problem and understand what's going> on.>>
http://bugs.debian.org/330400>> This bug is resolved in Debian's rails since
September of last year.> Unfortunately, the instiki tarball forces you to use
the rails packaged> with it, so that if you have ruby >= 1.8.3, Instiki breaks.
This is not> Debian's fault. It's a consequence of Instiki not keeping up
with> current versions of ruby and rails.>> See:>>
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2245>> So there you have it, plain and
simple. The Debian packagers aren't> incompetent, as you suppose.>> Finally,
if you read the fine print, http://instiki.org/show/Debian (or> at least the
cached copy at Google, since the site seems to be down> right now) even
mentions this problem and suggests a workaround, though> I can understand if
you've missed it, as it is scanty on details:>> From what I understand
ruby1.8.3+ breaks things. I had to> specifically install ruby1.8.2
(ruby1.8=1.8.2-7sarge2)> —Timcad>> I'd love to take my rough
pre-packaging work on instiki and tidy it up> into a proper package for Debian,
but I'm a bit reluctant to make a go> of it on my own with upstream development
in a shambles. However, if> there were others interested in making it happen,
I'd certainly be happy> to help collaboratively maintain it.>> Ben> (aka. synrg
at debian dot org -- not a Ruby maintainer, though)>>>
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