Re: Documentation for upstream developers

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On 09/02/06 at 10:04 +0000, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:44:51AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > I think we should work on a documentation for upstream developers, named
> > "How to be nice to Linux distributions (re)packagers", and explaining
> > some common mistakes and ways to make the DD happier, like :
> > - don't distribute only as a gem
> > - use setup.rb or extconf.rb
> > - don't use require '../lib/mylib', use the search path
> > etc
> 
> RPA being a generic repackager (well, at least in the past) already
> drafted some of this documentation.  We can use the information since
> IMO it covers all my concerns:
> 
> http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?GoodPractices
> http://rpa-base.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?PackagingNitpickChecklist
 
I've started working on
http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/upstream-devs.html

Comments & contributions welcomed.
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