How to best maintain libqt4-ruby (and libsmokeqt4) once KDE4 is here

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello,

Adeodato Simó wrote:
> I was looking today at the kdebindings module of KDE4, and I noticed it
> not only ships Ruby bindings for KDE (Korundum), but also to Qt, which
> you maintain at the moment in a separate source package (libqt4-ruby).
> 
> From what I've seen, these bindings are all maintained in KDE's SVN
> repository, and releases to Rubyforge are made periodically. How do you
> think we'd best proceed? In particular, let's address these points:
> 
>   1. once kdelibs from KDE4 enter unstable, would you still like
>      (hopefully!) to continue to maintain libqt4-ruby? If so, would you
>      be willing to maintain it from a kdebindings package (we'd give you
>      commit access to the pkg-kde repository), or would you rather
>      continue to maintain it in a separate source package?

  I think the best would be to maintain from the kdebindings package.
I'll be glad to do it, but I'll probably need some help in doing so too
(not too much, though). I've taken to heart to keep libqt4-ruby in good
shape so far (and it is relatively tricky, with all the FTBS on hppa)
and I intend to go on. I guess maintaining all the bindings at the same
time should hardly be more work.

>   2. would you have any interest in maintaining Korundum, the Ruby *KDE*
>      bindings? Again, either from the kdebindings package, or from a
>      separate source package (belonging eg. to pkg-ruby-extras). I ask
>      because the pkg-kde team is already overloaded, and we know that a
>      single interested maintainer would do best than ourselves.

  As the main maintainer of a team-backed package, that should be fine,
that is, if I can rely on the team from time to time (especially for
advice on bits I don't know about, since I do not use KDE at all).

>   3. on the other hand, though, we feel that libsmokeqt4 should be
>      maintained from the kdebindings source package, since that's its
>      origin, and (if I'm not mistaken) other bindings can need it (in
>      other words, it's only bundled in the qt4-qtruby tarball for
>      convenience, ain't it so?) So, would you agree that we make
>      kdebindings gains the libsmokeqt4-* packages once KDE4 starts
>      entering unstable ?

  By the way, when is it planned that KDE4 enters unstable ? I bet you
want it out for lenny, don't you ?

  Sorry for having taken quite some time to answer.

  Cheers,

	Vincent


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