[DRE-maint] Packaging setup.rb?

Gunnar Wolf gwolf at gwolf.org
Fri Nov 9 18:22:35 UTC 2007


Vincent Fourmond dijo [Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:28:31AM +0100]:
> > This doesn't work in the case that the upstream source has an old
> > setup.rb.
> 
>   It should be painless to check that in the makefile, save the old
> version, and restore it on make clean. That could (should ?) be
> incorporated into the ruby-setup-rb.mk class, making it
> straightforward. Packagers could opt to keep the old version of
> setup.rb if found, in case of backward compatibility problems.

Yup - Even better this way, as the behaviour I implemented could be
switched on/off using a variable instead of just guesswork :)
(although, of course, it's still obvious to me that, if you are
calling ruby-setup-rb.mk and lack a setup.rb, you _want_ it to
appear, maybe even magically ;-) )

Greetings,

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