[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Ruby packaging policy

Fri Jan 7 23:45:00 CET 2011

Hello there,
+
+It’s been quite some time since I started working on ruby modules, and
+I’ve been working on the policy too.
+
+You can find the page here:
+http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Ruby
+
+Now, there are some things that still need to be clarified.
+
+The most controversial part is the naming convention.
+
+Many ruby modules are packaged via gem, and fedora introduced a strange
+naming convention, calling their package rubygem-%{gemname}. This
+convention was soon followed by other rpm-based distro such as opensuse
+and momonga, and we also have some of them.
+
+I’m not against changing that convention, but this raises also other
+questions.
+1) Do we also need to change the provides/requires ? ie
+Requires: ruby(%{gemname})
+instead of
+Requires: rubygem(%{gemname})
+2) is there a way to make youri watch for rubygem-%{gemname} in case we
+opt for that change ? Or better, can youri watch for %{gemname} on
+rubygems.org ?
+
+Is it ok to add development dependencies as Suggests ? Shall we do a
+-devel subpackage that will pull these dependencies. The advantage of
+doing this is that automated installs will not add these dependencies
+where they aren’t needed, but this will cause spec files to be more
+complicated to maintain (unless we add proper support for this in
+gem2rpm)
+
+About files:
+shall we keep the gem in the cache directory ? I’m not sure this is
+really useful, up till now I added it, but it makes the package a bit
+bigger
+
+Shall we do a -doc subpackage for big packages ? I think it may be
+interesting for package that have a lot of documentation and that are
+part of an ecosystem (ie, gems required for other packages like
+gitorious)
+
+Normally %gem_* macros should take care of that, but we might have to
+make it evolve.
+
+Do you see something I haven’t thought of ?
+
+I will provide an example spec in this policy in the following days, and
+will take care of making the necessary changes to the existing packages
+once we agree with the above points.
+
+Thanks in advance,
+
+Best regards,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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