RFC: adopting libxml-ruby
Hi everyone,
libxml-ruby is pretty much exactly what you'd expect: nice OO Ruby
bindings to libxml. It was orphaned a while back amidst various
licensing and development troubles upstream; see #335698. It looks like
that all has been settled, so I'd like to adopt the package and get the
newest version into Debian.
I've prepared an initial package at
<http://www.brettcsmith.org/debian/libxml-ruby/>. I've got a sponsor
lined up already and he's provided me with a lot of useful feedback, but
I'd love to get any other comments that could help get this package in
great shape. One thing that's particularly bothering me is a patch to
the project's Rakefile in .diff.gz, to disable a dependency on Ruby
Gems. I'd like to handle this patch with one of the formal patch
systems if possible, but if I do that, I can't easily call rake from the
clean target, which seems like a bigger problem.
If anybody's interested in trying this package out and letting me know
what you think, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
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Brett Smith
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