Hi!
In a few weeks from now, Wheezy will be frozen. One of the goals of the
Ruby Team for Wheezy is to try to push as far as possible the transition
to a new policy for Ruby library.
You receive this email because you are listed as the maintainer or
uploader of a Ruby package which has been detected as not using this new
policy. See the list of maintainers/packages at the end of this email.
The Debian Ruby Team have put a lot of effort on this goal, converting
(most of) the packages they maintain to this policy. The success of this
effort can be measured on the graph [0].
0: http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/wheezy/
The data used for this graph taken into account *all* Ruby libraries
contained in Debian, and not only those maintained by the Ruby packaging
team. In order to improve the overall quality of Ruby packages in Debian
and to ensure consistency in the way Ruby packages are installed and
used, we need to finish the transition, and therefore we strongly
encourage all maintainers of Ruby packages in Debian to update their
packages to reflect these changes. These changes concern three
different aspects: the package naming convention, the path where
libraries are installed, and the execution of test suites at build time.
These aspects are briefly described below and detailed in the draft of
the Ruby policy [1], most of which being taken care of automatically by
our packaging tool gem2deb.
1:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-policy.git;=summary
2: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gem2deb
Naming conventions
==================
The source packages libfoo-ruby should be renamed ruby-foo. If these
packages provide extensions needing to be compiled for the various Ruby
versions, these should nevertheless be shipped in the same binary
package, also called ruby-foo. If the package is mainly used as an
application, then it can be named just "foo". The naming convention can
be of course adapted in the case of the packaging of utilities (chef,
rails, redmine...).
With the convention we used before, not only were we shipping distinct
Ruby packages per interpreter version (i.e. libfoo-ruby1.8 and
libfoo-ruby1.9.1) and needed to hold large-scale repackaging on ABI
jumpis (as in the latest 1.9 → 1.9.1 change). With this new convention
(and build system – read on for details) only one binary package will be
built, and will carry all of the needed components, either in a common
place or in the version-specific directories.
For more extensive information see our guidelines for Ruby packaging [3].
3: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging#Guidelines_for_Ruby_packaging
Install locations for libraries
===============================
Libraries not bundled with the Ruby interpreters should be installed
somewhere in /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby directory, instead of
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8 or /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1. A Pure Ruby library working
for all Ruby version would go in /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby. Files
specific to a version of the interpreter should go in
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/$RUBYVER (vendorlibdir). Code compiled
specifically for the host architecture should go to
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/$RUBYVER/$ARCH (vendorarchdir).
For the moment, MRI Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 can use the libraries installed in
these directories. JRuby would need to have theses directories added to
$LOAD_PATH and advertised by RbConfig (see #663342).
Running test suites during package build
========================================
A large number of Ruby libraries provide a test suite. It is recommended
to run these tests during the construction of the package in order to
check that the package will (at least partially) work with the
interpreters and other libraries included in the distribution.
A new packaging tool: gem2deb
=============================
The "gem2deb" tool takes care of most of the points mentioned above in
an automatised way. Running gem2deb on your orig tarball or a gem
package from your upstream will get you most of the way towards making
your package compatible with the new draft Ruby policy. Instructions
for the transition to gem2deb are available on the wiki page [4] of the
team.
4:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging#Howto:_converting_a_package_from_ruby-pkg-tools_to_gem2deb
gem2deb builds binary packages which are amenable to all of the
currently existing Ruby interpreters, and is future-proofed so that when
a new one is included in Debian, all of our packages will gain support
with just a rebuild. It also adds niceties such as proper Gem following
via debian/watch or packaging with simple, current practices for
debian/*. Please do consider repackaging using it!
To conclude, we encourage you to update these Ruby packages
packages so that they follow the guidelines above. Everyone willing to
team maintain their Ruby packages is of course welcome to join the Ruby
Packaging team (pkg-ruby-extras on alioth) and import their packages in
the team repository. We would be happy to answer your questions and hear
your comments on [email protected] or on the #debian-ruby IRC
channel.
Cédric Boutillier, for the Ruby Team.
________
List of Ruby packages needing to be converted to the new policy, sorted
by maintainer/uploader:
Adam Majer <[email protected]>
libbz2-ruby
akira yamada <[email protected]>
bsfilter
libeb-ruby
libkakasi-ruby
libshadow-ruby
libuconv-ruby
racc
rdtool
Alan Boudreault <[email protected]>
mapserver (U)
Aleksey Kravchenko <[email protected]>
rhash
Alessandro Ghedini <[email protected]>
ecasound (U)
Alessio Treglia <[email protected]>
ecasound (U)
Alex Pennace <[email protected]>
raspell
Alexander Wirt <[email protected]>
rrdtool (U)
Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
libsbml (U)
Andrew Pollock <[email protected]>
puppet (U)
ARAKI Yasuhiro <[email protected]>
gonzui
mod-ruby (U)
Arnaud Cornet <[email protected]>
ruby-prof
Athena Capital Research <[email protected]>
quickfix
rubyluabridge
Aurélien GÉRÔME <[email protected]>
libnet-irc-ruby
libsnmp-ruby
Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>
xmms2
Bernd Zeimetz <[email protected]>
rrdtool (U)
Bram Senders <[email protected]>
shoes
Bryan McLellan <[email protected]>
libabstract-ruby
C.J. Adams-Collier <[email protected]>
dlr-languages (U)
Cajus Pollmeier <[email protected]>
qpid-cpp
Changyan Xie <[email protected]>
libsbml (U)
Christoph Egger <[email protected]>
graphviz (U)
Cleto Martín <[email protected]>
zeroc-ice (U)
Dafydd Harries <[email protected]>
rbbr
ruby-amazon
Daigo Moriwaki <[email protected]>
tdiary
Daniel Watkins <[email protected]>
ditz
Dave Beckett <[email protected]>
redland-bindings
David Claughton <[email protected]>
graphviz
David Palacio <[email protected]>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Debian CLI Libraries Team <[email protected]>
dlr-languages
Debian GIS Project <[email protected]>
gdal
geos
mapserver
ruby-hdfeos5
Debian Med Packaging Team <[email protected]>
libsbml
Debian Multimedia Maintainers
<[email protected]>
ecasound
Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[email protected]>
korundum
qtruby
Debian RRDtool Team <[email protected]>
rrdtool
Debian Vim Maintainers <[email protected]>
vim
Decklin Foster <[email protected]>
libchronic-ruby
liblockfile-ruby
libtrollop-ruby
Deepak Tripathi <[email protected]>
libhtml-htmltokenizer-ruby
libxml-simple-ruby
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
quantlib-swig
Esteban Manchado Velázquez <[email protected]>
dhelp
Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[email protected]>
gdal (U)
geos (U)
mapserver (U)
Francesco Poli (wintermute) <[email protected]>
apt-listbugs
Francisco Moya <[email protected]>
zeroc-ice
Georgios M. Zarkadas <[email protected]>
dhelp (U)
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <[email protected]>
comedilib
Guilherme de S. Pastore <[email protected]>
subversion (U)
Gustavo Franco <[email protected]>
ruby-mp3info
Hendrik Sattler <[email protected]>
obexftp
Ivo Maintz <[email protected]>
libsbml (U)
James McCoy <[email protected]>
vim (U)
Janos Guljas <[email protected]>
uwsgi
Jesse van den Kieboom <[email protected]>
gnoemoe
Joey Schulze <[email protected]>
vpim
Jon Bernard <[email protected]>
libfam-ruby
libimlib2-ruby
Jérémy Bobbio <[email protected]>
schleuder
Kenshi Muto <[email protected]>
quickml
KURASHIKI Satoru <[email protected]>
hyperestraier
qdbm
Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]>
epic5
Masahito Omote <[email protected]>
prime
prime-dict
sary-ruby
suikyo
Matt Palmer <[email protected]>
dns323-firmware-tools
libaugeas-ruby
Matthias Klose <[email protected]>
dlr-languages (U)
Micah Anderson <[email protected]>
puppet (U)
Michael Janssen <[email protected]>
player
Michael Meskes <[email protected]>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Mirco Bauer <[email protected]>
dlr-languages (U)
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]>
elinks (U)
Moriyoshi Koizumi <[email protected]>
libsbml (U)
Nico Golde <[email protected]>
stfl
tpp
Nicolas Valcárcel Scerpella (Canonical) <[email protected]>
libaugeas-ruby (U)
Nigel Kersten <[email protected]>
puppet (U)
NIIBE Yutaka <[email protected]>
gonzui (U)
htree
langscan
libescape-ruby
libwebapp-ruby
samidare
tomoe
treil
wfo
Nobuhiro IMAI <[email protected]>
rubilicious
Olly Betts <[email protected]>
xapian-bindings
Pablo Lorenzzoni <[email protected]>
html-template
Paul van Tilburg <[email protected]>
gnoemoe (U)
shoes (U)
Peter Samuelson <[email protected]>
subversion
Puppet Package Maintainers <[email protected]>
puppet
Roberto C. Sanchez <[email protected]>
quickfix (U)
rubyluabridge (U)
Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
remctl
Ryan Niebur <[email protected]>
libxml-simple-ruby (U)
Sebastian Harl <[email protected]>
graphviz (U)
rrdtool (U)
Sebastien Delafond <[email protected]>
god
Shugo Maeda <[email protected]>
eruby
librmail-ruby
libwrap-ruby
mod-ruby
mod-ruby (U)
Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <[email protected]>
screenruler
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]>
dhelp (U)
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <[email protected]>
puppet (U)
Sune Vuorela <[email protected]>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Sylvestre Ledru <[email protected]>
ohcount
Taku YASUI <[email protected]>
libgettext-ruby (U)
libimage-size-ruby (U)
librd-html-ext-ruby (U)
libzip-ruby (U)
Taku YASUI <[email protected]>
hiki
libexif-ruby
libfilesystem-ruby (U)
libmp3tag-ruby
nadoka
ruby-exif (U)
TANIGUCHI Takaki <[email protected]>
amrita2
aswiki
Tatsuki Sugiura <[email protected]>
libfcgi-ruby
libfilesystem-ruby
libgettext-ruby
libimage-size-ruby
libneedle-extras-ruby
libneedle-ruby
libnet-netrc-ruby
libnora-ruby
librd-html-ext-ruby
libvorbisfile-ruby
libzip-ruby
Tatsuya Kinoshita <[email protected]>
mhc
Thomas Mueller <[email protected]>
apt-listbugs (U)
Thorsten Alteholz <[email protected]>
libsbml (U)
Todd Troxell <[email protected]>
flvtool2
Tomas Pospisek <[email protected]>
posixlock
Torsten Marek <[email protected]>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Torsten Werner <[email protected]>
ohcount (U)
Troy Heber <[email protected]>
subversion (U)
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <[email protected]>
elinks
YAEGASHI Takeshi <[email protected]>
rubyfilter
Youhei SASAKI <[email protected]>
rttool
ruby-hdfeos5 (U)
Yukiharu YABUKI <[email protected]>
td2planet
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