[DRE-maint] Package Sponsorship

[Will Daniels]

Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> I might have time this weekend.  But if somebody here has time before
> that.. be my guest!
>   

> I have added you on Alioth.  You should have write access to our
> repository within 12 hours.  Welcome to the team!
>   
Hi Paul,

Thanks for that. I have just checked out the svn trunk and looked at a
few of the packages there, and I see already a few things that I have
not bothered to do with my packages (ruby 1.9.1 variants for starters).
It will probably take what's left of the weekend now for me to check
again through everything, so I will post some time next week when I
think they are ready for review.

Can I ask another question? For packages containing bin scripts, what is
the preferred way to organise that if having both ruby1.8 and ruby1.9.1
package variants? Do we just install one bin script in the default -ruby
package that will use the default ruby, or do we try to make each of the
versioned packages fully complete with their own bin script? Perhaps the
-rubyX package should do something like "recommend" the -ruby one in the
former case?

I am wondering about this because you suggested before to stay as close
to upstream as possible, in which case perhaps a depends on
libfoo-ruby1.8 would naturally expect the associated bin command(s) to
come with it directly?

Many of these little bin scripts I'm finding in gems are of questionable
usefulness in the first place, so I am thinking it would be daft to fuss
too much over them for packaging, but while I'm still learning the ropes
with this, please indulge me in asking a few trivial questions.

Cheers,
Will