On 11/05/11 at 11:51 +0200, Vincent Fourmond wrote: > > Hello, > > Now that I got myself a little more familiar with gem2deb, I found > that there is one thing missing: the support for builds/installs using > gem2deb. The problem is the following: while in many cases the ruby dh > sequencer does the right thing, it does not when upstream build system > relies on setup.rb hooks. > > While in some cases, it is possible to run these hooks manually (with > a little bit of patching) or to run equivalent commands, in some cases > (as for rmagick), the work involved is too great to be worth it. > > Does anyone object to integrate a support for setup.rb directly into > gem2deb (something similar to the old cdbs class) ? That would be a > second auto build system (say, ruby-setup.rb) that users should select > explicitly (to avoid changing the build behaviour). This would allow to > keep as much code in common for the ruby build and the ruby-setup.rb > build, and keep things as consistent as possible. > > I'd be glad to write it.
Wouldn't it risk making the gem2deb code harder to maintain? - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ruby-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110511123941.ga11...@xanadu.blop.info
