[DRE-maint] Bug#832222: foodcritic: Section should not be “ruby”

Ben Finney ben+debian at benfinney.id.au
Mon Jul 25 22:40:16 UTC 2016


On 25-Jul-2016, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Ben (2016.07.23_05:17:01_-0700)
> > The package ‘foodcritic’ installs primarily an application, of
> > interest regardless of the programming language. It should not be in
> > the “ruby” section.
> 
> foodcritic is a linter for chef cookbooks, which are written in ruby.
> Well, chef cookbooks are a ruby-based DSL, but it's essentially ruby.

The Section for a package is meant to guide people in finding
packages.

Someone looking for Chef tools is less likely to be looking in the Ruby
language section, and more likely to be looking in the system
administration section. Would you agree?

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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