Re: tentative TODO list for getting Rails 3 on Wheezy

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí:
>> On 20/06/12 at 21:34 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
>> > But that's not all. In order to have packages compatible with
>> > rubygems-integration, they need to be rebuilt with gem2deb > 0.3 (not
>> > uploaded yet). For `Arch: any` packages, we can just request binNMU's,
>> > but they are only 35 out of 333 packages that Build-Depend on gem2deb.
>> > For `Arch: all` packages, we have to do sourcefull uploads.
>> >
>> > Lucas, can the mass package rebuild infrastructure help us with this?
>>
>> I have the impression that the largest part of the work is to update all
>> source packages. Then, I can provide access to a fast Amazon VM instance
>> to avoid rebuilding all packages on one's laptop.
>
> I've uploaded gem2deb 0.3.0 with support for installing gemspecs earlier
> today, and now we have a deadline: June 30th!
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/06/msg00006.html
>
> I can probably handle the packaging by then. Is there anyone that could
> give a hand with the mass rebuild? In principle, it's just bumping the
> Build dependency on gem2deb to (>= 0.3.0~), add a short changelog entry,
> rebuild and upload.
>
> Anyone?

  I can do up to 50 (and possibly more) tomorrow evening, and some
more Monday and Wednesday/Thursday. We should just coordinate who
uploads what.

  Cheers,

      Vincent