Package: lintian Version: 2.5.0~rc4 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello lintian maintainers, As it was announced some time ago [1], the Debian Ruby team is working on a new policy and a new packaging helper for Ruby software. The changes are summarized in the Debian Wiki [2]. One of these changes is that we introduced a pseudo-package called 'ruby-interpreter', which is currently provided by ruby1.8 and ruby1.9.1, and may be provided by other implementations in the future (such as jruby, rubinius etc). Packages providing ruby-interpreter should also include an alternatives entry for /usr/bin/ruby, so that users can switch which interpreter is used by default when one runs plain 'ruby' and not rubyX.Y explicitly. This way, we concluded that packages that are supposed to work on any reasonable Ruby implementation must depend on 'ruby | ruby-interpreter' in order to make this work. The attached patch changes this in lintian, and changes the description of the corresponding tag to match the new status. Please consider including this patch in the next lintian release: it will be very usefull to the Ruby team to have this updated in lintian. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/03/msg00210.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyInWheezy -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.21.51.20110421-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.13-2 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.3-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1 collection of modules that parse H ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org> http://softwarelivre.org/terceiro
From b505ee89b74bb154a86f4d3d639ae45a7d703aa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 12:43:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update Ruby scripts for new Ruby policy
---
checks/scripts | 2 +-
checks/scripts.desc | 16 ++++++++++------
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/checks/scripts b/checks/scripts
index e512031..2a49c86 100644
--- a/checks/scripts
+++ b/checks/scripts
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ our %interpreters =
rep => [ '/usr/bin' ],
rexx => [ '/usr/bin', 'regina-rexx' ],
rrdcgi => [ '/usr/bin', 'rrdtool' ],
- ruby => [ '/usr/bin' ],
+ ruby => [ '/usr/bin', 'ruby | ruby-interpreter' ],
runhaskell => [ '/usr/bin', 'ghc | ghc6' ],
runhugs => [ '/usr/bin', 'hugs | hugs98' ],
sed => [ '/bin', '' ],
diff --git a/checks/scripts.desc b/checks/scripts.desc
index 19c8ec9..7e9d955 100644
--- a/checks/scripts.desc
+++ b/checks/scripts.desc
@@ -266,14 +266,18 @@ Info: Packages with Python scripts should depend on the package
Tag: ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep
Severity: important
Certainty: certain
-Info: Packages with Ruby scripts must depend on the package ruby. Those
- that have Ruby scripts that run under a specific version of Ruby need a
+Info: Packages with Ruby scripts must depend on a valid Ruby interpreter.
+ Those that have Ruby scripts that run under a specific version of Ruby need a
dependency on the equivalent version of Ruby.
.
- For example, if a script in the package uses <tt>#!/usr/bin/ruby</tt>,
- the package needs a dependency on "ruby". If a script uses
- <tt>#!/usr/bin/ruby1.9</tt>, then the package need a dependency on
- "ruby1.9".
+ If a script in the package uses <tt>#!/usr/bin/ruby</tt>, the package needs a
+ dependency on "ruby | ruby-interpreter". This allows users to choose which
+ interpreter to use by default. If the package is intended to be used with a
+ specific Ruby version, its scripts should use that version directly, such
+ as <tt>#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8</tt>
+ .
+ If a script uses <tt>#!/usr/bin/ruby1.9</tt>, then the package needs a
+ dependency on "ruby1.9".
.
In some cases a weaker relationship, such as Suggests or Recommends, will
be more appropriate.
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