[DRE-maint] Building Ruby Debs

[Bryan McLellan]

We use a lot of ruby at work, and I'm often frustrated with the
disconnect between the deb and gem packages, and tend to prefer the
deb packages; discussion left aside. I end up mashing together debs as
I go, and I'm trying to clean that up.

I've put together deb's of ruby packages with setup.rb in the past
using ruby-pkg-tools, I've pushed uuidtools online here [1]. I don't
see anything in ruby-pkg-tools for working with ruby packages that
just have a Rakefile. Specifically at the moment I'm trying to
debianize the chain of ultraviolet [2], textpow [3] and oniguruma [4].

In such a case should I fall back to dhmake and work up from there?

Bryan

[1] http://git.ninjr.org/?p=deb-ruby.git;a=tree;f=uuidtools-1.0.3/debian
[2] http://ultraviolet.rubyforge.org/
[3] http://textpow.rubyforge.org/
[4] http://oniguruma.rubyforge.org/