[DRE-maint] Package Sponsorship

[Gunnar Wolf]

Will Daniels dijo [Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 04:36:03AM +0200]:
> 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?

/usr/bin/* are to be called by the user, so the version of Ruby they
run _should_ not be too important for the user. As of today, our
default version of Ruby (i.e. /usr/bin/ruby) is 1.8, so the binaries
should usually be part of libfoo-ruby1.8. Or, OTOH, think twice: Are
the binaries pertinent for the library? They often are rather examples
that should be moved to
/usr/share/doc/libfoo-ruby(1.8|1.9.1|-common)/examples instead.

Greetings,

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