Questions from paris.rb for the meeting with Debian Ruby
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Q1. The historical details of ruby packaging in Debian, since the last
news that was relayed accross the comunnity was the departure of (the/
one of the) old maintainer.


Debian Ruby Extras Lib

sid: 529 source packages
testing:
wheezy: 344
squeeze: 158

* new packaging policy: tests are run at build time
* important projects: gitlab diaspora


Q2. A point about the goals of ruby-debian team for the next release
would obviously be highly enjoyable and interresting


Goals for Jessie

* get rid of Ruby1.8
* 


Q3. How does the Debian Policy applies to Ruby, what are the ruby
specific policies for packaging applications and libs/gems


Q4. What are the usage statistics of debian's ruby packages, compared to
perl and python for example. What's the usage of the rails package for
instance.


Q5. What's the debian-ruby team opinion on rvm/rbenv/etc, and especially
on the facts that many people use built-from-source rubies on
production machines.

rbenv is packaged for debian
ruby-build
ruby-switch: uses alternative system

Q6. Many people are concerned about the right way to update their
dependencies cleanly on debian without having to break/conflict
anything (i read something on our forums about fpm, what's you opinion
on this one?)

Is it a question about the ~> operator?
if yes, ruby-foo (>= 2.2~), ruby-foo (<< 3) is something that could work.