Re: Ruby-full, last episode ?
On 22/04/07 at 19:49 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've proposed a while ago the creation of a ruby-full metapackage that
> encompasses all binary packages produced by the current stable ruby
> source package including in particular the development packages and
> command-line tools such as ri, irb and rdoc), so that ruby-talk won't be
> full of mails stating that debian is doing nasty stuff to Ruby (see
> #290705). This package has a somewhat different aim than the
> libruby-extras metapackage, so I don't think there is redundancy.
>
> My question is the following: last time I asked for a sponsor, it was
> decided that ruby-full would have to wait for lenny. Now, I can upload
> myself, but I wanted first to make sure that no one is opposed to this
> package. The package can be found onr the pkg-ruby-extra repository:
>
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ruby-extras/packages-wip/ruby-full/trunk/debian/
>
> I plan to upload it by the end of next week, so if you strongly
> oppose, be quick ;-)...
Hi Vincent,
If I understand it correctly, ruby-full will depend only on packages
built from the ruby1.8 source (ie core+stdlib+irb+ri+...). If so, why
not integrate it into the ruby1.8 source package ?
Also, what are the opinions of the ruby1.8 maintainers about that ?
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