Re: Lintian check for Ruby PKG

[Jonas Genannt <jonas.genannt@capi2name.de>]

Hello Antonio,

> Thanks a lot for working on this! I have some suggestions on the wording
> of the tag descriptions, see the attached patch.

thanks - I have included it.

> maybe lintian already has some logic to detect a package as transitional that
> is more ellaborate than that?

you are correct, replaced it with !$info->is_pkg_class('transitional')

> 
> There is also the case where the package was not converted for wheezy, so the
> wheezy package still needs to have the transitional packages ...

that is no problem, if the package is an transitional the lintian warning will not
displayed.


> >  if ($str_deps and $str_deps->implies("ruby1.9.1")) {
> >      tag 'ruby-depends-on-specific-ruby-version';
> >  }
> 
> Is it possible to put this tag on any dependency that matches ruby[0-9.]+
> instead of checking explictly on ruby1.9.1? e.g. a package depending explicitly
> on ruby2.0 should also receive such warning.

done.


> IMO this tags should be severity normal instead of wishlist.

done.

Updates: https://github.com/hggh/ruby-lintian

Greets,
	Jonas