Re: Debian Ruby packaging changes

[Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller@tmit.eu>]

Am Donnerstag, den 09.06.2011 um 20:43 schrieb Antonio Terceiro:
> Thomas Müller escreveu isso aí:
> > Hi Lucas,
> > hi debian-ruby,
> > 
> > a few weeks ago I started to support Francesco on the package apt-listbugs.
> > Based on your email we started to analyze the migration of that package to ruby1.9.
> > 
> > So far I can tell it looks pretty good - with one little problem: soap4r
> > soap4r is only compatible with ruby1.8 and -quite logical- not available in ruby1.9 packages
> > 
> > But there are forks which are compatible with ruby1.9 - e.g. https://github.com/spox/soap4r-spox
> > A quick shack-down has shown that this will work for our package.
> > 
> > So - why am I tell you this?
> > Has someone else a similar problem? - Do you miss soap4r as well?
> > Is there a package for soap4r on the way?
> > If not - no prob I'll take care - and return to you asap with more questions ;-)
> 
> As far as I know, no one is working on that.
> 
> The only problem I see is having two copies of the code in the archive
> ... but that's already the case with rubygems and rake (which were
> incoroporated in ruby1.9.*) ...
> 
> You should probably install the library code to
> /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.9.1 instead of /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby, so
> that ruby1.8 will always load its own copy instead of this new one.
> 
> -- 
> Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org>
> http://softwarelivre.org/terceiro

here we go - please find ruby-soap4r on mentors:
http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages?action=details;package=ruby-soap4r

Please have a closed look and send back all your comments.

Known issues:
- (gem) version 1.0.0: I already got the feedback form the gem author - he will change the version to 2.0.0
- missing man pages: I'll write them in the next days
- breaking tests: tests are written using the gem test-unit - already packaged for ruby1.9? - need to dig into this

Maybe there is a sponsor available as well?
Is the Debian Ruby Team willing to take the maintainership?

Thanks a lot,

Thomas