[DRE-maint] Bug#645230: rubygems: Gems not usable, invalid gemspec, wrong date format

[Benjamin Peter]

Package: rubygems
Version: 1.7.2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

Nothing special, I am not using gem often. I install "foreman" and then
noticed the problems when trying to use it.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?

Using foreman

$ foreman start
Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/foreman-0.24.0.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-10-04 00:00:00.000000000Z"
Invalid gemspec in [/var/lib/gems/1.8/specifications/term-ansicolor-1.0.7.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: "2011-10-13 00:00:00.000000000Z"
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:926:in `report_activate_error': Could not find RubyGem foreman (>= 0) (Gem::LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:244:in `activate_dep'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:236:in `activate'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1307:in `gem'
        from /usr/local/bin/foreman:18

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Foreman starting my app.

I also noticed, rubygems on wheezy is still 1.7? http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/rubygems
while on sid it is 1.8 just like all the other packages? http://packages.debian.org/sid/rubygems

But I am not sure what the version numbers mean.


Thanks a lot for looking into it! :)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rubygems depends on:
ii  ruby1.8  1.8.7.352-2

Versions of packages rubygems recommends:
ii  build-essential  11.5       
ii  ruby1.8-dev      1.8.7.352-2

rubygems suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information