Re: [Debian Wiki] Update of "Teams/Ruby/RubyInWheezy" by VincentFourmond
Hello Lucas,
On 18/04/11 23:17, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> on rewriting the Debian ruby policy: I don't think that a policy is
> necessary if we standardize on gem2deb. The RubyInWheezy wiki page is a
> de-facto documentation of how ruby packaging should be done.
No. For one, the X[SB]-Ruby-* fields are not mentioned, while they are
definitely important. As you have mentioned in another email, I missed
one field... simply because there no way to know it is needed !
For someone like me who didn't follow all the discussions about
gem2deb, the RubyInWheezy page looks more like a TODO-list for those who
wrote gem2deb than an easy-to-follow guide on how to transition from old
policy to new policy.
> Regarding
> the ruby-poly.html dir on the pkg-ruby website, I've just removed it to
> avoid any confusion.
Good.
> Regarding the conversion of a simple package, instead of starting from
> the existing package, I recommend to start from scratch, integrate the
> whole changelog history, and see what else needs to be done. Feel free
> to ask me for reviews if you feel it's needed.
Hmmm... That is the way you would do it, but there should be other
ways to do so. Do you think packagers of libraries that provide Ruby
bindings, but also python, perl and Java binding will want to restart
their packaging from scratch ? Having a well-documented path from old to
new including all the fields necessary and all the caveats is necessary
if you want the transition to happen.
A template by dh-make-ruby isn't a policy.
Cheers,
Vincent
--
Vincent Fourmond, Debian Developer
http://vince-debian.blogspot.com/
It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the
people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase
``people are people everywhere'' had traditionally thought of as people.
-- Terry Pratchet, The Fifth Elephant
Vincent, listening to Bad Wisdom (Suzanne Vega)
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