libgems-ruby1.8 conflicts with rubygems1.8
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libruby-extras (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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James Westby |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: libgems-ruby1.8
Ubuntu intrepid 8.10
libgems-ruby1.8 has a conflict with rubygems1.8. It recommends package "rubygems" instead. Unfortunately, that package is a empty meta-package.
Steps to reproduce:
$ sudo apt-get install libgems-ruby1.8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libbreakpoint
libredcloth-
libbuilder-
libdaemons-
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Recommended packages:
rubygems
The following packages will be REMOVED:
rubygems1.8
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgems-ruby1.8
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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This is bad, as it disallows the installation of rails together with libgems-ruby.