It only sounds ridiculous because you don't know the full story. We've already had a lengthy discussion on debian's packaging before, including rubygems: http:/

It only sounds ridiculous because you don't know the full story. We've already had a lengthy discussion on debian's packaging before, including rubygems: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734936 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734936 technomancy summed it up: "The rubygems devs have asked nicely to get Debian to fix these issues, and have been turned down flatly... Debian is the only distributor who breaks rubygems when packaging it." Must we go through this whole debate again?