Re: Status of pry, ruby-method-source, and ruby-listen?

[Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com>]

2013/1/23 Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>:
> Please take some care to check it the packages you are creating are
> actually needed as a dependency for a Debian package of the applications
> you want to get into Debian!
>
> The `listen` gem, for example, is a dependency of guard, which is a
> development tool and *should not* be needed for building a Debian
> package or for the app's runtime.

I can't say for this particular case, but in general it is suggested
as a good idea to run tests provided with the gem and these tests
typically require development tools to be present during build time.
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