[DRE-maint] Bug#857650: ruby-json: Please build java extension

[Miguel Landaeta]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 07:33:22AM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> 
> Is this going to be necessary for many packages? If so, we should
> probably implement support for JRuby in gem2deb instead.

I don't think this is going to be necessary for many packages. From
the top of my head I can only think about 3 or 4 popular gems that
provide a Java extension: ruby-json, ruby-psych, nokogiri and
jruby-openssl. Of course there are a few more out there, but I believe
those are the most used anyway.

- jruby-openssl is clearly tied to JRuby and is already packaged.

- ruby-psych (in the pipeline, ITP: #809469).

- nokogiri (I'm not aware of any plan to work on this currently).

- ruby-json (being discussed in this bug report).

It would be nice to have more support for jruby in gem2deb but at the
moment it works OK.

> At the moment we handle all supported Ruby interpreters on a single package,
> but that is only for multiple versions of MRI when we have them simultaneously.
> I'm not sure we want a new binary package, specially if this is going to be
> needed for many packages.

I see, I'm also not sure a new binary package is needed. If I keep
everything on the current package, my change only adds two small jar
files under /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/json/ext directory and this
works perfectly with jruby as is.

So, I think this is even a better approach, so thanks for the
clarification.

If there are no more objections, I'll keep everything in ruby-json.

Thanks,
Miguel.

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