[DRE-maint] ruby-setup-rb.mk, and ftbses

Gunnar Wolf gwolf at gwolf.org
Mon Jan 14 17:53:46 UTC 2008


Lucas Nussbaum dijo [Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:14:54PM +0100]:
> > This is the point, the class links setup.rb if one is not already
> > present in upstream source. So at clean time, it removes it only if it
> > is a symlink. (This code extract is in the clean target.)
> > BTW the fix is not mine.
> 
> This doesn't work. The idea is to always use setup.rb from the package.
> Using upstream's setup.rb will make us use old versions of setup.rb,
> which won't support some of the options we use.

AIUI, this might end up not working - Setup.rb does _not_ claim to
maintain backwards compatibility. From the documentation [1]:

   Backward Compatibility

    I do not assure any backward compatibility for the setup.rb. If
    you'd like old behavior, just use old version.

I think that, if upstream ships a setup.rb, we should just use
it. libsetup-ruby should be useful in the (many) cases where we
_don't_ have it.

[1] http://i.loveruby.net/en/man/setup/devel.html

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