From: Sascha Ebach <se@...>
Date: 2005-01-16T19:53:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug#290705: ruby: Ruby is completly vivisected.

leon breedt schrieb:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:53:11 +0900, Trevor Wennblom <wenn0029@tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> 
>>And just *what* excuse do the Debian maintainers give for this
>>inexcusable mess that they've made of Ruby? With perhaps the exception
>>of ruby1.8-examples, ruby1.8-elisp, and *maybe* ruby1.8-dev and
>>libruby1.8-dbg (I don't know what's in those), the rest off this stuff
>>is part of Ruby's core as defined by Matz. If 'ri' isn't installed
>>(not necessarily the data files, because ri represents program
>>capabilities, too), then any system without it doesn't actually have
>>Ruby.
> 
> -dev and -dbg packages make sense to be split out (headers, and debug
> symbols if you want gdb backtraces), but i don't see the core
> distribution of Python or Perl being broken up into so many bits, so i
> have no idea why they've done it.
> 
> i.e. core Python package on Debian contains pretty much every module
> (readline, zlib, syslog, and so forth) shipping with the standard
> Python distribution.

That was a major irritation to me, too. But I thought they would do that 
with everything (never checked). Now that I hear that they don't maybe 
we can politely ask them to stop this. Anyone know who is the maintainer?

Sascha