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

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 10:48:47PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Le Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 10:13:59PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
> > Am Sonntag, dem 19.09.2021 um 17:31 +0200 schrieb Cédric Boutillier:
> > > 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, I pushed a couple of commits today to fix that: I changed the
> 'gemspec' target of debian/rules slightly to call a Ruby script
> filtering non-needed dependencies and the ports/* and patches/* parts of
> the files metadata.
> 
> Removing the ports/* from the list of files fixed the gem install layout
> part.
> 
> Remains the question about where to put the header file (in the gem
> install layout context).
> > RUBYHDRDIR (/usr/include/ruby-<ver>)
> > SITEHDRDIR (/usr/include/ruby-<ver>/site_ruby)
> > VENDORHDRDIR (/usr/include/ruby-<ver>/vendor_ruby)
> 
> In the context of an installation under vendor_ruby, I would go for
> VENDORHDRDIR, although I would have hoped for a path which does not depend
> on the ruby version.

nokogiri being a C extension, I think using a ruby version-specific path
is the right directory to use. You won't be able to build something
against nokogiri and use it with a given Ruby version before nokogiri
itself is available for that version.
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