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Re: Lintian warning on Ruby applications



On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 04:54:52PM +0530, Balasankar C wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently, I noticed lintian giving a warning
> "application-in-library-section" whenever I try to package a Ruby
> application (IIRC, I haven't seen that the last time I packaged an
> application, which was 'rexical'. So, I think it is new). What should I
> give for Section in d/control file for Ruby applications? Or does it
> depend on the type of the application? 

Yes, it depends. It needs to be one of these:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/

> Or, we keep it as Ruby itself and override the lintian warning?
> 
> I am trying to package an application[0] that generates asciiart from
> images. It can be used both as a library and as an executable, of
> which I decided to go with the latter.
> 
> [0] https://rubygems.org/gems/asciiart

If all else fails, you can go with 'misc'.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>

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