On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:24:32PM +0530, Praveen A wrote: > 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. guard is a tool used to automatically run the tests when you change any files, and is used as part of a development environment. It *is not* needed to run tests as part of a Debian package build. If upstream has put a hard requirement on it, patching it out is way easier than packaging a handful of packages. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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