[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] Fate of the sources file

Esteban Manchado Velázquez zoso at debian.org
Fri Aug 25 23:25:20 UTC 2006


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:53:01PM +0100, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:45:29PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > With the upcoming 0.11 upload of the ruby-pkg-tools and the sources list
> > begin deprecated 0.10 we have to decide on the fate of this file.
> > I propose, after talking about this with Lucas, to:
> > 
> > * Use watch-files primarily, when possible.
> > * Use the sources file as fallback when a watch-file is not possible.
> > 
> > If we decide to do this, we need to take the following actions.
> > 
> > * Change pkg-ruby-get-sources to follow the above two steps.
> >   Possible it is done this way already?
> 
>     I think I completely got rid of the sources file parts... but I'm not
> sure.
> 
>     I just checked, and yes, I got rid of it. We should never use the sources
> file _URL_ again, right? I'm going to undo the sources file-related changes,
> and if we finally decide _not_ to use the URL sources file, I will delete
> it...

    Committed to SVN.

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