Re: Ruby changes for Wheezy
On 10/03/11 at 11:47 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 09/03/11 at 22:27 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Ruby changes for Wheezy"):
> > > We are planning a rather large set of changes in Ruby packaging for
> > > Debian wheezy, and would appreciate some external feedback on our
> > > proposals.
> > >
> > > Our plans are described on
> > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyInWheezy
> > > Don't hesitate to ask for details if needed.
> >
> > I think your families of packages
> > ruby1.8-foo
> > ruby1.9.1-foo
> > ruby-foo-common
> > etc. are overcomplicated. Can you not find a way to make only one
> > package for each extension, each containing an appropriate collection
> > of .so files etc. ?
>
> what we could do, indeed, is ship all the .so files in the same binary
> package, and then hack the Depends field to have:
> ruby1.8 | ruby-interpreter
>
> What is the correct way to override what dpkg-shlibdeps detects?
(Dropping -devel@ from Cc)
So, what do you think about that?
Shipping everything in the same binary package makes things noticeably
simpler. I'm willing to go in that direction if you agree.
- Lucas
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