Re: Building a Debian package out of a Rubygems' .gem file

[Brett G <brettg@hq.newdream.net>]

 Hello,

I apologize first if this is a redundant email, this is my first post on 
this list.

Using dh-make-ruby what will be the expected guidelines for dependency 
building with each gem build? Will it bypass dependencies that are 
non-gem specific as in Rmagick, or will it only do dependency building 
on gem-to-gem dependencies?

Also, apologies to Antonio as I accidentally sent this message to him 
first =)

Thanks!
Brett


On 10/18/2010 7:44 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Hi Clint,
>
> Clint Byrum escreveu isso aí:
> > On Oct 17, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I've just published a post that provides some information on some stuff
> > > I've being working on, such as gem2tgz, and the newest addition, a
> > > debhelper buildsystem implementation that reproduces the behaviour of
> > > our current setup.rb CDBS rules, with some differencies.
> > >
> > > http://softwarelivre.org/terceiro/blog/building-a-debian-package-out-of-a-rubygems-.gem-file
> > >
> > > I would appreciate any feedback on that, and ideas on how to cope with
> > > the missing bits (there are plenty of them).
> > Antonio, I think we may have been doing some parallel work.
> >
> > My focus is on making it easy to go from gem ->  .dsc with Debigem
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/debigem
> >
> > I just released a version which no longer uses 'gem install' to put
> > the files down on the disk, but rather users setup.rb.
> >
> > My next challenge is in handling new versions gracefully by extracting
> > the yaml spec file properly, as the program I wrote, dh_rubygems,
> > tries to do the ruby dependencies based on the gemspec dependencies.
> I see that dh_rubygems generates the dependencies during build time,
> like dh_perl. What would be the issue with new versions?
>
> > Anyway, I hope its of some use and would be thrilled if you chose
> > to lift some code from it for what you're doing. I find that most
> > well written gems work without modification just by go dh-make-gem
> > file.gem and then debuild'ing in the source dir.
> >
> > If you think my time would be better spent working on your tool, let
> > me know, I would love to collaborate on this.
> Yes, debigem is a very nice work. In special, reading the gemspec file
> and generating proper debian/control and debian/copyright files is very
> important for us, and if you agree it would be nice to turn parts of
> debigem into dh-make-ruby.
>
> I've started drafting some requirements for dh-make-ruby at the wiki:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/dh-make-ruby