Re: Ruby packaging in wheezy: gem2deb, new policy, etc.

[Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info>]

Excerpts from Antonio Terceiro's message of Thu Jan 20 04:57:00 +0200 2011:

> I am probably biased towards Git against anything else, but in the very
> specific case of pkg-ruby-extras, using Subversion is not as annoying as
> it is in other projects I collaborate with.
> 
> On the other hand, probably 100% of our upstreams use Git, and also
> using it for the packaging work will both make it easier for us to track
> upstream *and* to send stuff back to them.
 
100% agree with both statements.

> But I would like to see something that gives us the same convenience
> that we have with our svn repository; perhaps some rake tasks in the
> root of such master Git repo would do the trick.

I [cloned][DREGIT] our svn repository to git and added simple
[ruby script][GITBLD] to build any package (download source,
unpack, debuild).

Let name it solution #1 :)

> Does anyone know of any other packaging group (in Debian or not) that
> has something like what we have today (a large repository with lots of
> - relatively - small packages), but in Git?

[Homebrew][HB] Repository that keeps "formulas" for macos. Same
layout as our solution #1.

I think its better to use submodules for our main repo and keep
all source in submodules. Then we can use git-buildpackage in
this submodules. With full source its easier to track upstream
and create fix-branches for upstream directly in debian repos.
Lets name it solution #2.

I vote for solution #2 :)

There is also draft for our new [Git Workflow][GW]. You can patch it
with your ideas :)

[DREGIT]: http://gitorious.org/debian-pkg-ruby-extras/pkg-ruby-extras
[GITBLD]: http://gitorious.org/debian-pkg-ruby-extras/pkg-ruby-extras/blobs/master/dbuild.rb
[GW]: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyExtras/UsingGit
[HB]: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

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