Re: RFS: ruby-bcrypt
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Lucas Nussbaum
<lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> On 22/04/11 at 23:35 +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Lucas Nussbaum
>> <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
>> > On 22/04/11 at 21:25 +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>> >> Dear mentors,
>> >>
>> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ruby-bcrypt".
>> >>
>> >> * Package name : ruby-bcrypt
>> >> Version : 2.1.4-1
>> >> Upstream Author : Coda Hale <coda.hale@gmail.com>
>> >> * URL : http://bcrypt-ruby.rubyforge.org/
>> >> * License : BSD
>> >> Section : ruby
>> >>
>> >> It builds these binary packages:
>> >> ruby-bcrypt - Ruby binding for the bcrypt() password hashing algorithm
>> >>
>> >> The upload would fix these bugs: 623597
>> >>
>> >> My motivation for maintaining this package is: One of the dependency
>> >> for Diaspora packaging
>> >>
>> >> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
>> >> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/ruby-bcrypt
>> >> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
>> >> main contrib non-free
>> >> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/ruby-bcrypt/ruby-bcrypt_2.1.4-1.dsc
>> >>
>> >> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>> >
>> > Could you enable tests?
>> Ok I've a doubt here. How do I enable the tests? Is it by providing
>> rspec in Depends? (It was there but it was commented out in control
>> file ). This may be a silly question but since I'm not a ruby guy I
>> may need a bit of help :)
>
> You need to edit debian/ruby-tests.rb. See other packages that use
> gem2deb in the git repo.
Oh fine I'll do that.
>
>> > I think that this could require updating rspec to gem2deb packaging
>> > (yes, I know it's an hard process, but it's something someone must do
>> > anyway :( )
>> >
>> How can I help here. I saw the package is now named as librspec-ruby.
>> Also its not maitained by pkg-ruby-extras! Let me know
>
> It is maintained by pgk-ruby-extras, but not using gem2deb and git.
> Also, it's severely outdated.
>
> So it needs to be transitioned to gem2deb. See my mail on this list
> earlier this week, in a discussion with Vincent Fourmond.
Ok let me read through.
>
> - Lucas
>
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