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

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>]

On 17/01/11 at 09:43 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 09:28 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 17/01/11 at 00:05 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 08:43 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > > > Sure. However, there's quite a lot of guessing going on in dh-make-ruby
> > > > to create debian/ruby-foo.{examples,docs,install}.
> > > 
> > > If this is done in the dh_ code then those files can just be used as
> > > additional stuff that the guessing missed.
> > 
> > I don't understand what you mean. Could you explain?
> > 
> 
> Basically, instead of relying on dh_installdocs to put the things listed
> in ruby-foo.docs into debian/ruby-foo/usr/share/doc, you would just have
> dh_ruby put the known ruby documentation there.

But then, it would severely limit the possibilities for overrides, and
we would end up basically reimplementing debhelper.

- Lucas