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Debian Ruby Policy

Abstract

This document describes the packaging of Ruby within the Debian distribution and the policy requirements for packaged Ruby programs and modules.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 2003 Software in the Public Interest

This manual is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution or on the World Wide Web at The GNU Public Licence.

You can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Contents

• 1 Ruby Packaging
  • 1.1 Versions
  • 1.2 Main package
  • 1.3 Ruby Interpreter
  • 1.4 Ruby library
  • 1.5 Tools/files for Development of ruby modules
  • 1.6 Module Path
  • 1.7 Documentation
• 2 Packaged Modules
  • 2.1 Module Package Names
  • 2.2 Dependencies
• 3 Ruby Programs
  • 3.1 Version Independent Programs
  • 3.2 Version Dependent Programs
• A Build Dependencies
• B Ruby 1.8 bundled modules
• C Ruby 1.6 to 1.8 transition

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Debian Ruby Policy