[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] question on how to include extra sources

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 05:02:09PM +0200, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
> I am just getting ready to move my debian/ dirs for libcomplearn-ruby
> into our repos.  I am concerned about one issue though:
> libcomplearn-ruby will not build without libcomplearn
> installed.   And libcomplearn will not build without libcsoap.  I
> guess libcsoap and libcomplearn  should not be brought into our ruby
> extra repos here... so what should I do to ensure that the pbuilder
> can find the required psckages somewhere?  

We'll have to make sure these two libraries get into the Debian
repostory first.  So, you need to find a sponsor for these two package. 
This can be one of us in the sense that these libs are required for the
binding.  I was wondering:  are the bindings the main thing and is the
main app written in Ruby or are the bindings just a side-effect, an
extra?

> For my own compilation I have used my own debian.cilibrar.com apt
> repos but this seems inappropriate for general use.  Can somebody give
> me a tip how to manage this properly?  Or maybe just point me to an
> example ruby project to follow to find out the right way to do it. 
> Thanks for any info,

A simple example binding package to look at is libcairo-ruby.  But of
course, the library required to build this package (libcairo) is already
in Debian.  Since libcomplearn-ruby has not uploaded yet or known
otherwise by Debian and just in a preparation state, it's not a problem
that the build-depends are not available.  They will need to be
eventually though.

Paul

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