[DRE-maint] Jekyll Update

[Harlan Lieberman-Berg]

Hi guys!

I've been trying to help get jekyll updated to its latest version after the
major update, but I've run into a bit of a conundrum that needs your advice
about how you want the problem solved.

Jekyll now depends, hard, on two other packages - jekyll-coffeescript and
jekyll-sass-converter.  Though they call these packages "plugins", jekyll
will not run in the event that either of them are not installed.

After talking to boutil about this on #debian-ruby (thanks again!), there
seems to be a couple possible solutions.

1.  Package jekyll-coffeescript and jekyll-sass-converter as separate
packages and submit them along with a Depends.  Pros: Simplicity.  Cons:
Bloats the archive with stuff that probably is not useful outside of jekyll.
2.  Package some bundle of the above as one package and use that to depend
on.  Pros: Limits the amount of flotsam added to Debian while allowing the
jekyll versions to be bumped along with upstream.  Cons: Multiple upstream
tarballs are complicated, still one package added into Debian that's
functionally useless.
3.  Turn jekyll into a multiple upstream package.  Pros: No junk in the
archive.  Cons: Multiple upstream tarballs are complicated, makes the
versioning a bit weird when one of the plugins that gets updated needs to
be bumped independently from jekyll itself.  (Maybe use a debian revision
number? blugh.)

If I had to pick one, I think I'd probably go with #3, in the desperate
hopes that the two "plugins" can simply be fixed at whatever version they
are at the time of the main jekyll update and that we won't run into
problems needing an update of one of them between jekyll updates.  But, I'm
not the maintainer, so I'm happy to do it however you guys and gals would
like.

If you'd like to look at my work so far, I've put it up at
https://github.com/hlieberman/debian-jekyll .  I have the package lintian
clean (or, it will be once an actual maintainer builds it and lintian stops
whimpering about NMUs) except for the upstream GPG pedantic tag, which I
will ping upstream about at some point to see if we can fix.

Please copy me on emails on this thread; I'm not part of the mailing list,
so I won't get responses if my email gets dropped off.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Harlan Lieberman-Berg
~hlieberman
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