[DRE-maint] Does a how-to exists ?

[Gunnar Wolf]

Simon COURTOIS dijo [Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:07:35PM +0200]:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a tutorial about ruby applications packaging for debian.
> I never created a debian package and the informations about cdbs are not really helpful to me right now.
> 
> Does a simple step by step how-to exists ?
> Or would it be, one day, possible to write it ?
> 
> Thanks for your work, :)

There are many ways to get there ;-) But if you are going to package
Ruby apps, I advise you to join the pkg-ruby-extras group [1] - That
will make things easier for you and for us.

Regarding a HOWTO - There is a preferred way for dealing with _most_
Ruby modules out there, and that's what we do on the group. It is
CDBS-centric (if CDBS means nothing to you, don't panic - just add it
to the list of things to basically understand. Myself, I am a newcomer
to CDBS as well and avoid it for my non-Ruby Debian work).

The information on the group's page is structured quite close to a
HOWTO. Of course, basic familiarity with building Debian packages is
expected. 

Greetings,

[1] http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/

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