Issue #5397 has been updated by Motohiro KOSAKI. Status changed from Open to Closed I verifiied r33386 only replace Deprecate with Gem::Deprecate and doesn't have any unrelated change. OK, it obviously has no risk. backported as r33435 then. ---------------------------------------- Backport #5397: Backport r33386 from #5378 (Deprecate => Gem::Deprecate) to ruby_1_9_3 for Ruby 1.9.3p0 http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5397 Author: Eric Hodel Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: RubyGems should not add new constants to the top-level namespace. r33386 fixes this on ruby-trunk and should be backported for 1.9.3p0 -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org