Package: libgdal-ruby Severity: normal Usertags: ruby18-removal, update-ruby-policy
Hi Debian GIS Project, As you may know, during the Wheezy release cycle, the pkg-ruby-extras team¹ has worked to update the Ruby libraries/modules/gems packages to follow a new policy, much easier for the maintainers (as we no longer require a separate package for each interpreter version), to the archive (as it strongly reduces code duplication), and much more sensical to the users (as they no longer require to fiddle with which among many almost-identical binary packages to install). While we achieved a quite good success level during the Wheezy cycle², we decided to act only on the packages maintained by the group — There are many Ruby library packages maintained by kind people (like yourself!) which have not yet adopted this new style. According to our records, you are currently maintaining the package: libgdal-ruby I am sending this report as part of a mass-bug-filing.³ Some useful information you might find useful: • Guidelines for Ruby packaging⁴ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging#Guidelines_for_Ruby_packaging • Ruby team release goals for Jessie⁵ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Jessie • About the Ruby team — Please consider joining!⁶ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby • Part of the new policy involves running the package's tests. Here is a swift introduction on what it means and how to do it: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/Packaging/Tests Thanks a lot for your attention! -- ¹ alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-ruby-extras/ ² http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/wheezy/ ³ https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/09/msg00196.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
