Hi Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
It's not so much related to the ruby package itself. The packages incriminated are those for third party libs AND programs (many programs install files in lib/ and "require" them from the main file).- library installation paths (see #446220): a common complain heard about Debian's ruby is that we install all libs in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8, mixing stdlib and third party libs. It would be a good idea to move away from that in ruby1.9.
Personally, I see advantages to the current approach : it makes a clear distinction between packages installed with apt-get and packages installed by hand. Since packages installed by hand have priority according to $LOAD_PATH, this is just fine to me.
Mathieu Blondel