Debian/Ruby Extras - Introduction

Introduction

Most of the packaging work can be simplified using the Ruby Package Tools. The tools are contained in the ruby-pkg-tools package, available in Debian. It contains the following:

• A file (pkg-ruby-extras.team) containing the names and email addresses of all team members.
• A CDBS class (ruby-setup-rb.mk) that is usable to create Debian packages from Ruby upstream libraries and apps that use setup.rb as their installer.
• A CDBS rule (uploaders.mk) to perform a substitution on build-time, filling in the Uploaders field with the team members. NB: this rule has been deprecated, do not use.
• In the future: dh-make-ruby stuff to automatically Debianize a source tree.
• A file (pkg-ruby-extras.sources) which contains a list of upstream sources, which versions are where to get. The file is used by the pkg-ruby-get-sources for locating and retrieving upstream sources for packages to be built that are checked out from the Subversion repository. However, the preferred way to retrieve upstream sources is by using a debian/watch file. You should only add your package to pkg-ruby-extras.sources if you cannot use a watch file.