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

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:25:41AM +0100]:
> > > But if i understand well, those circular dependencies will only last
> > > during migration to new policy ?
> > 
> > I don't really trust Bill's opinion on this. I've just asked
> > debian-devel@.
> 
> So, according to the feedback on debian-devel@, we should probably
> duplicate the arch-independent part in every arch-dependent package, or
> introduce a ruby-foo-common package that contains the common parts.
>
> I suggest that we just duplicate the files if it doesn't prevent
> co-installability (i.e there are no files shipped in /usr/share, for
> example). And switch to ruby-foo-common if it's required to bring
> co-installability, or if the arch-independant parts are really huge.

...At least that sounds very consistent with the existing
practice... And whether we use a -common package or not depends IMO on
the size of the data in question.