Bug#418105: lintian: Add a new interpreter: jruby0.9

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Sebastien Delafond <seb@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:40:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> What package provides jruby0.9 and what's the canonical path to the
>> interpretor?

> jruby0.9 is the package, /usr/bin/jruby0.9 is a link:

>   lrwxrwxrwx [...] /usr/bin/jruby0.9 -> ../lib/jruby0.9/bin/jruby

Ah, I see, it's in NEW.  That's why I couldn't find it with apt-file.

>> Also, is there no jruby interpretor? Is it always jruby0.9?  What
>> happens when 1.0 comes out?

> My package is modeled on ruby, so when jruby1.0 comes out there will
> be another interpreter in /usr/bin/jruby1.0.

> I plan on providing a jruby package that would mostly provide a
> symlink /usr/bin/jruby to the most recent version available, but I
> haven't gotten around to doing that just yet.

> Does this sound reasonable ?

Sure, that sounds fine.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>