Hi everyone, libxml-ruby is pretty much exactly what you'd expect: nice OO Ruby bindings to libxml. It was orphaned a while back amidst various licensing and development troubles upstream; see #335698. It looks like that all has been settled, so I'd like to adopt the package and get the newest version into Debian.
I've prepared an initial package at <http://www.brettcsmith.org/debian/libxml-ruby/>. I've got a sponsor lined up already and he's provided me with a lot of useful feedback, but I'd love to get any other comments that could help get this package in great shape. One thing that's particularly bothering me is a patch to the project's Rakefile in .diff.gz, to disable a dependency on Ruby Gems. I'd like to handle this patch with one of the formal patch systems if possible, but if I do that, I can't easily call rake from the clean target, which seems like a bigger problem. If anybody's interested in trying this package out and letting me know what you think, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, -- Brett Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
