Re: Additions to gem2deb
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The automatic build and shipment of documentation is a bigger change.
> Enough for a new minor version. The changes are in the branch
>
> build-documentation
>
> in the gem2deb repository. I volunteered for this task at DebConf13. [0]
>
> There are some details in the implementation when building
> documentation, they should all be accounted for in the commit message.
>
> I would like to reach a consensus on libjs-jquery though, which is not
> suggested even though the bundled jquery.js is replaced with a symlink
> to /usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js. This is because libjs-query
> recommends javascript-common which in turn suggests
> apache | lighttpd | http. If I have understood correctly, if suggests are
> configured to install automatically, suggestions would be automatically
> installed. This would install a lot of, probably unwanted, stuff
>
> My proposal for the relation between the generated docs bundled jquery.js
> and libjs-jquery is to neither suggest nor recommend it, leaving it to the
> user to figure it out if they want jquery enabled ruby documentation. The
> motivation is that the pain for all the extra installed stuff is bigger than
> the gain of being suggested to install libjs-jquery.
>
> Also, note that future builds of already existing packages will all contain
> automaticaly built docs. ^_^
This change needs to be documented in the Debian Ruby Policy draft
also, of course.
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Per
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