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

[Clint Byrum <clint@ubuntu.com>]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 19:26 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 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.
> 

I suppose it does get redundant with dh_installdocs. What if
dh-make-ruby just added a directory to the .docs file and then dh_ruby
will copy the docs into that directory?

As far as overrides, that seems rather simple to me.

dh_ruby --ignore-doc=x --ignore-file=y