[DRE-maint] Bug#993829: Please ship nokogiri.h header file

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Sonntag, dem 19.09.2021 um 17:31 +0200 schrieb Cédric Boutillier:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking at the bugs on ruby-nokogiri before trying to update
> it to the new upstream version.
> 
> Using the gem install layout is not enough to have the
> ext/nokogiri/nokogiri.h installed. As I understand it, gem_installer.rb
> in gem2deb is removing all sources from the ext/ directory.

Actually nokogiri just failed when using the gem installation layout and I
wasn't able to fully deal with that yet (one has to remove the tarballs from
the created gemfile).

So I was thinking about just adding the header. But when nokogiri is installed
in the vendor-path, which path should we use to put the header file
(nokogiri/nogogiri.h) in?

RUBYHDRDIR (/usr/include/ruby-<ver>)
SITEHDRDIR (/usr/include/ruby-<ver>/site_ruby)
VENDORHDRDIR (/usr/include/ruby-<ver>/vendor_ruby)

That would fix the issue at hand and give us time to figure out these
questions:

> So my questions are:
> - should we modify gem2deb to allow for installation of headers file?
>   (at least maybe the ones added to the WHITELIST)
> - if so, should we install them, as the gem command does, in the
>   /usr/lib/ruby/gems/x.y.z/gems/package-a.b.c/ext subdirectory?
> OR
> - would it make sense for nokogumbo to use instead Built-Using: to use
>   the nokogiri.h present in the source package?
> 
> what would be the best strategy for this situation?

Regards, Daniel
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