[DRE-maint] Re: [Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] Re: [Pkg-ruby-extras-commits] r1215 - in packages: . tioga tioga/branches tioga/branches/upstream

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 03:23:43PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 02:25:22PM +0100, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
> >> Author: fourmond-guest
> >> Date: 2006-12-16 14:25:22 +0100 (Sat, 16 Dec 2006)
> >> New Revision: 1215
> >>
> >> Added:
> >>    packages/tioga/

I also wondered.. why did this land in packages/ and not packages-wip/?
IMO preparation also includes teamify'ing and possible CDBSifying the
package.

> > Please, try to map the source (package) names to the module that is
> > required to use this library.  This is the current convention (and I
> > know it should be formalised better soon).
> 
>   OK. I'll know for next time, but this package has been in Debian for a
> while, and I don't think it is a good idea to change the source package
> name now that it is in the archive (correct me if I'm wrong).

We can change it, it doesn't hurt anyone. It has been done for several
libraries already. But there is no reason to do it now/immediately.

>   I have another package (source name qt4-qtruby, already in the
> archive) to integrate to the SVN repository. Should I change the source
> package name ?

Yes, IMO you do.

>   And what should we do in case there are mostly programs in the package
> ? (but in Ruby)

Depends on whether the library of the application can be used by other
library and/or applications. In this case it needs to split of, like
for example rubygems/libgems-ruby.

> > So "require 'foo'" -> libfoo-ruby
> > and "require 'foo/bar/baz'" -> libfoo-bar-baz-ruby.
> 
>   This should definitely be mentioned on the 'Ruby Policy' draft found
> on the website.

Yes, it should be. Once Etch is release I hope to discuss all this
with everyone before Lenny.

Regards,
Paul

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