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Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy



Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí:
> On 10/03/11 at 11:47 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 09/03/11 at 22:27 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Ruby changes for Wheezy"):
> > > > We are planning a rather large set of changes in Ruby packaging for
> > > > Debian wheezy, and would appreciate some external feedback on our
> > > > proposals.
> > > > 
> > > > Our plans are described on
> > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyInWheezy
> > > > Don't hesitate to ask for details if needed.
> > > 
> > > I think your families of packages
> > >   ruby1.8-foo
> > >   ruby1.9.1-foo
> > >   ruby-foo-common
> > > etc. are overcomplicated.  Can you not find a way to make only one
> > > package for each extension, each containing an appropriate collection
> > > of .so files etc. ?
> > 
> > what we could do, indeed, is ship all the .so files in the same binary
> > package, and then hack the Depends field to have:
> > ruby1.8 | ruby-interpreter
> > 
> > What is the correct way to override what dpkg-shlibdeps detects?
> 
> (Dropping -devel@ from Cc)
> 
> So, what do you think about that?
> Shipping everything in the same binary package makes things noticeably
> simpler. I'm willing to go in that direction if you agree.

I agree as well.

I wanted to make a summary of the points raised on -devel, but hadn't
the time for that yet. Anyone?

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org>
http://softwarelivre.org/terceiro


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