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 debian-r...@lists.debian.org 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 <ad...@zombino.com>
libbz2-ruby
akira yamada <ak...@debian.org>
bsfilter
libeb-ruby
libkakasi-ruby
libshadow-ruby
libuconv-ruby
racc
rdtool
Alan Boudreault <aboudrea...@mapgears.com>
mapserver (U)
Aleksey Kravchenko <rhash.ad...@gmail.com>
rhash
Alessandro Ghedini <gh...@debian.org>
ecasound (U)
Alessio Treglia <ales...@debian.org>
ecasound (U)
Alex Pennace <a...@pennace.org>
raspell
Alexander Wirt <formo...@debian.org>
rrdtool (U)
Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org>
libsbml (U)
Andrew Pollock <apoll...@debian.org>
puppet (U)
ARAKI Yasuhiro <a...@debian.org>
gonzui
mod-ruby (U)
Arnaud Cornet <acor...@debian.org>
ruby-prof
Athena Capital Research <acr-deb...@athenacr.com>
quickfix
rubyluabridge
Aurélien GÉRÔME <a...@roxor.cx>
libnet-irc-ruby
libsnmp-ruby
Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org>
xmms2
Bernd Zeimetz <b...@debian.org>
rrdtool (U)
Bram Senders <b...@luon.net>
shoes
Bryan McLellan <b...@loftninjas.org>
libabstract-ruby
C.J. Adams-Collier <c...@colliertech.org>
dlr-languages (U)
Cajus Pollmeier <ca...@debian.org>
qpid-cpp
Changyan Xie <panch...@gmail.com>
libsbml (U)
Christoph Egger <christ...@debian.org>
graphviz (U)
Cleto Martín <cleto.mar...@gmail.com>
zeroc-ice (U)
Dafydd Harries <d...@debian.org>
rbbr
ruby-amazon
Daigo Moriwaki <da...@debian.org>
tdiary
Daniel Watkins <dan...@daniel-watkins.co.uk>
ditz
Dave Beckett <daj...@debian.org>
redland-bindings
David Claughton <d...@eclecticdave.com>
graphviz
David Palacio <dpala...@orbitalibre.org>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Debian CLI Libraries Team <pkg-cli-libs-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
dlr-languages
Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
gdal
geos
mapserver
ruby-hdfeos5
Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
libsbml
Debian Multimedia Maintainers
<pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
ecasound
Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-...@lists.debian.org>
korundum
qtruby
Debian RRDtool Team <rrdt...@ml.snow-crash.org>
rrdtool
Debian Vim Maintainers <pkg-vim-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
vim
Decklin Foster <deck...@red-bean.com>
libchronic-ruby
liblockfile-ruby
libtrollop-ruby
Deepak Tripathi <apenguinli...@gmail.com>
libhtml-htmltokenizer-ruby
libxml-simple-ruby
Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org>
quantlib-swig
Esteban Manchado Velázquez <z...@debian.org>
dhelp
Francesco Paolo Lovergine <fran...@debian.org>
gdal (U)
geos (U)
mapserver (U)
Francesco Poli (wintermute) <invernom...@paranoici.org>
apt-listbugs
Francisco Moya <p...@debian.org>
zeroc-ice
Georgios M. Zarkadas <g...@member.fsf.org>
dhelp (U)
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <gud...@gudjon.org>
comedilib
Guilherme de S. Pastore <gpast...@debian.org>
subversion (U)
Gustavo Franco <stra...@debian.org>
ruby-mp3info
Hendrik Sattler <deb...@hendrik-sattler.de>
obexftp
Ivo Maintz <i...@maintz.de>
libsbml (U)
James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
vim (U)
Janos Guljas <ja...@resenje.org>
uwsgi
Jesse van den Kieboom <je...@icecrew.nl>
gnoemoe
Joey Schulze <j...@debian.org>
vpim
Jon Bernard <jbern...@debian.org>
libfam-ruby
libimlib2-ruby
Jérémy Bobbio <lu...@debian.org>
schleuder
Kenshi Muto <km...@debian.org>
quickml
KURASHIKI Satoru <lur...@gmail.com>
hyperestraier
qdbm
Kurt Roeckx <k...@roeckx.be>
epic5
Masahito Omote <om...@debian.org>
prime
prime-dict
sary-ruby
suikyo
Matt Palmer <mpal...@debian.org>
dns323-firmware-tools
libaugeas-ruby
Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org>
dlr-languages (U)
Micah Anderson <mi...@debian.org>
puppet (U)
Michael Janssen <jamu...@debian.org>
player
Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Mirco Bauer <mee...@debian.org>
dlr-languages (U)
Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org>
elinks (U)
Moriyoshi Koizumi <m...@sfc.keio.ac.jp>
libsbml (U)
Nico Golde <n...@debian.org>
stfl
tpp
Nicolas Valcárcel Scerpella (Canonical) <nvalcar...@canonical.com>
libaugeas-ruby (U)
Nigel Kersten <ni...@explanatorygap.net>
puppet (U)
NIIBE Yutaka <gni...@fsij.org>
gonzui (U)
htree
langscan
libescape-ruby
libwebapp-ruby
samidare
tomoe
treil
wfo
Nobuhiro IMAI <n...@debian.or.jp>
rubilicious
Olly Betts <o...@survex.com>
xapian-bindings
Pablo Lorenzzoni <spec...@debian.org>
html-template
Paul van Tilburg <pau...@debian.org>
gnoemoe (U)
shoes (U)
Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org>
subversion
Puppet Package Maintainers <pkg-puppet-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
puppet
Roberto C. Sanchez <robe...@connexer.com>
quickfix (U)
rubyluabridge (U)
Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>
remctl
Ryan Niebur <ryanrya...@gmail.com>
libxml-simple-ruby (U)
Sebastian Harl <tok...@debian.org>
graphviz (U)
rrdtool (U)
Sebastien Delafond <s...@debian.org>
god
Shugo Maeda <sh...@debian.org>
eruby
librmail-ruby
libwrap-ruby
mod-ruby
mod-ruby (U)
Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals <rai...@ubuntu.com>
screenruler
Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <ra...@linuxia.de>
dhelp (U)
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <s...@debian.org>
puppet (U)
Sune Vuorela <s...@debian.org>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org>
ohcount
Taku YASUI <t...@debian.or.jp>
libgettext-ruby (U)
libimage-size-ruby (U)
librd-html-ext-ruby (U)
libzip-ruby (U)
Taku YASUI <t...@debian.org>
hiki
libexif-ruby
libfilesystem-ruby (U)
libmp3tag-ruby
nadoka
ruby-exif (U)
TANIGUCHI Takaki <tak...@debian.org>
amrita2
aswiki
Tatsuki Sugiura <s...@nemui.org>
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 <t...@debian.org>
mhc
Thomas Mueller <thomas.muel...@tmit.eu>
apt-listbugs (U)
Thorsten Alteholz <deb...@alteholz.de>
libsbml (U)
Todd Troxell <ttrox...@debian.org>
flvtool2
Tomas Pospisek <tpo_...@sourcepole.ch>
posixlock
Torsten Marek <shlo...@debian.org>
korundum (U)
qtruby (U)
Torsten Werner <twer...@debian.org>
ohcount (U)
Troy Heber <tr...@debian.org>
subversion (U)
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <app...@debian.org>
elinks
YAEGASHI Takeshi <yaega...@debian.org>
rubyfilter
Youhei SASAKI <uwab...@gfd-dennou.org>
rttool
ruby-hdfeos5 (U)
Yukiharu YABUKI <yyab...@debian.org>
td2planet
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