[Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] Clean issue with extconf.rb class

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:13:25PM +0000, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:35:13PM +0100, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > [...]
> > Ok, so it seems I meant the ruby-setup-rb class, not the ruby-extconf-rb class.
> > What it does in the clean target is call: ruby setup.rb config,
> > this is chained to doing some extconf.rb configure voodoo if there is any.
> > If a build-dep is missing, the config fails and so does the clean
> > target, but it shouldn't!
> > The clean target should be somewhat 'best effort' and if it doesn't
> > configure it should call ruby setup.rb distclean regardless.
> > 
> > Thoughts? Esteban? :)
> 
>     :-) I will try to have a look. The solution is probably something like
> doing "<whatever> config || true", but I'd like to investigate it.
> 
>     But, I'm not sure if we should upload a new version, now that we are so
> close to a freeze (after all, the package is not in the archive...).

Actually, policy[1] requires the build-deps to be installed for the
clean target.  So, I think it's rather a tool issue, starting to clean
when it is known that build-depends are not satisfied.  I am currently
using pdebuild instead of pdebuil --use-pdebuild-internal (since the
first one actually works with cowbuilder).  And the first one seems to
clean before going into the chroot that will get the build-depends,
while the latter does this after the chroot is built.
I'd think it's safe to assume we can blame pbuilder and leave the class
alone. ;)

Regards,
Paul

1: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
   (thanks, Arnaud, for looking it up and confronting me with it ;))

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