On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 03:44:13PM +0100, Dafydd Harries wrote: > Ar 01/06/2004 am 14:00, ysgrifennodd Roeland Moors: > > > > Here is the ruby package: > > http://rubyforge.org/projects/gnucap/ > > > > The debian package can be created by typing 'rake deb' in de > > topdir. (rake must be installed) > > As far as I can tell, Rake is not currently available for Debian and > would need to be packaged before the gnucap library. > > The debian/rules file *must* run all commands required to build the > package. This includes invoking Rake. > > > This is my first attempt at a debian package so tell me if I'm > > doing something wrong. Suggestions, comments are welcome. > > Could you provide a Debian source package? I.e. This should be a > .orig.tar.gz, a .diff.gz and a .dsc. > > I think the section should be "libs" rather than "interpreters". > > I don't think there should be a "1.8" on the end of the package name -- > my understanding is that this convention should normally be reserved for > packages built from the main Ruby distribution. > > The examples included in the package should be installed in > /usr/share/doc. > > It would be nice if all the boilerplate debhelper lines were removed > from the rules file.
Here is the latest debian package + source file: http://gnucap.rubyforge.org/debian/ -- Roeland

