Re: RFS: ruby-flores 0.0.8

[Abhijith PA <abhijith@debian.org>]

Hi Praveen,

On 15/12/23 02:56 PM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>    On Fri, Dec 15 2023 at 12:32:17 +05:30:00, Abhijith PA
>    <abhijith@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>    Hello o/. On 12/12/23 01:49 AM, Ajayi Olatunji O. wrote:
> 
>      Hi, I just packaged ruby-flores 0.0.8, a build dependency for arr-pm
>      0.0.12, which is a build dependency for gitlab 15.11.6 Kindly check
>      the package out at
>      [1]https://salsa.debian.org/thegodtune/ruby-flores Please review and
>      sponsor. Thank you!
> 
>    By the description of arr-pm, "Written in pure ruby because librpm is
>    not available on all systems". We already have librpm[1] in archive.
>    Perhaps we can depend on that ? Also I am not sure why gitlab will be
>    handling rpm packages, unless its a core functionality I guess we can
>    remove it.
> 
>    Both suggestions would require more work/ruby skills and long term
>    maintenance from us. Compared to that updating a ruby gem is lower
>    barrier.

That was a mere suggestion from me. You or Ajayi Olatunji will be 
doing it. So Do-ocracy matters.
 
>    gitlab allows hosting deb/rpm repos from ci so we shouldn't disable it.

Ah, nice. Thank you.


--abhijith