[DRE-maint] Writing a user friendly guide on how to package Ruby applications for Debian

[Ondřej Surý]

I just joined pkg-ruby team, so I'll comment only generic packaging things.

> I'm writing a guide (and learning how to do it at the same time!) on how to package Ruby applications for the Debian package format at http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Deploying_Qt_Ruby_Applications_as_a_Debian_packages_for_Kubuntu and have the following questions
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> 1.) I have installed ruby-pkg-tools but have no idea what to do with it. I do not understand this page http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/ruby-pkg-tools/cdbs.html
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> Any pointers?

http://cdbs-doc.duckcorp.org/

> 3.) Also, is /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/ the correct location for ruby library files belonging to an application to live in?
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> Perhaps I should be using some kind of symlink trickery. In any case, any help greatly appreciated.

Definitely not. No package is allowed to put anything into /usr/local
(that applies for any package, not just ruby).

Ondrej
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