On 09/03/2013 02:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Danjean <vdanjean...@free.fr> writes: > >> The fact is that the FTP team comment was correct: it is really a small >> package. So, my question was really open (I do not know every package in >> Debian), in case someone has a useful suggestion (that does not involve >> to rewrite the script). > > moreutils is another possible home for such useful scripts, although I'm > not sure if Joey is interested in accepting Ruby scripts. I think > currently it's C and Perl.
Thank you for pointing this out. I just recently uploaded a script, splitpatch, that I argued should be accepted as-is (i.e. as a "micro package") because of the dependency on ruby. Given that ruby is becoming more popular for scripting, what do folks think about a catch-all package for ruby scripts? I don't have a good feel for what the right trade-off is between: * reducing load on the archive by consolidating these tiny packages * making good use of maintainer's time, the implication being that coordinating multiple (otherwise unrelated?) ruby scripts is going to be more of a time commitment for the maintainer(s) and * making it easy (or even possible) for users to find these scripts when the package name doesn't match upstream Discuss... (and thanks in advance for constructive ideas) tony
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