I don't use rubygems myself so I'm just commenting as a spectator. But I think it's very reasonable to ask that if someone (anyone) discovers a bug, then the r

I don't use rubygems myself so I'm just commenting as a spectator. But I think it's very reasonable to ask that if someone (anyone) discovers a bug, then the right thing to do is to report it. They don't have to fix it themselves; maybe that responsibility falls on the rubygems package maintainer. But the maintainer will never know there's a bug until someone reports it. Yes, it does seem to be a critical and obvious-to-catch bug. But as davidw said, maybe the maintainer already had the prereqs installed, maybe they were having a bad day, and they just ran a quick test and saw that it worked and released it. Mistakes happen, and I'm sure the maintainer would be happy to fix those mistakes, but they can't be fixed if the maintainer doesn't even know about them. On a side note, I agree with Zed's rant on Debian being unique with its configuration and packaging layout. I use Ubuntu on my work laptop and so I've gotten used to the different filesystem layout for config files, etc. When it comes time to set up a server, am I going to go with a different distro and remember which distro has which config file in which location, or am I just going to stick with Ubuntu server because I already know it? I don't like having to make that choice.