[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] ToDo items

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:19:22PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > Just to clear my mind and hopefully yours as well, I want to mail a list
> > of things that probably will have to be done but are not targetted
> > towards a specific package:
> > 
> > - Add watch files to all packages.
> 
> Interesting but not critical
> 
> > - Adapt pkg-ruby-get-sources to use the watch files.
> 
> Same as above

This might not seem critical, but as suggested before on the
mailinglist, the current system of registering sources[1] in some file
that in fact always lags behind on your system or some file on the web
that must have to be kept updated.
Doing watch files will have a two fold effect.  Per source pkg you know
where to get the sources and we can check up-to-dateness of the our
stuff.

> > - Adapt the ruby-setup-rb.mk class to have a configurable clean-target.
> 
> Anything configurable in the class is good I think. The opacity of cdbs
> bothers me to no end, so having targets like that helps.

Note the documentation written by Duck for our classes: [2].
If we change stuff "API-wise", don't forget to tell him :)

> > - Incorporate the use of piuparts[1] in our way of working/testing.
> 
> Definitely! Concrete ways of doing this don't seem to exist besides
> manually running it when you want to though. Perhaps a makefile target, or
> simply patching the debuild program to run piuparts?

Well I normally test by doing a pdebuild, then install, library test and
a lintian check (which pdebuild doesn't do), so I can add this to my
list.

> > - Change all Maintainer fields of all packages to reflect the main
> >   person taking care of the package, move the Team name & address to the
> >   Upload field (already there AFAIK).
> 
> Yeah, I like this idea.

Ok, but I think we have to inventarise which package is orginally made
by who...  I don't remember it for all, anyone?  :)

> I'm still drowning in Xorg stuff, but I'll try and find the time to help
> out with it... piuparts in particular is really interesting to me.

Great!

Paul

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