Re: [PATCH] debian: package ruby bindings

[David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>]

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:34 AM, David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> OK, but that doesn't really help us deal with support requests e.g. on IRC.
>> Some "feature requests" for the bindings:
>
> Can you point to some of these requests, or are they hypothetical?

I don't know how many support requests we've got, but yes, I remember at
least one.

> Moreover, wouldn't making sure that the bindings are package mostly
> solve this issue?

Well, people wouldn't have to build and install the bindings, _if_ they
happened to be using an OS with packages available. But not everyone
uses binary packages. I guess for me it's just a software quality issue
to have some minimal level of documentation.

>> 1. Add a short README describing how to build, and how to read the docs
>> (it looks like there is a public)
>>
>> 2. Add a couple tests at least reaching the (low) bar set by the python
>>    bindings
>>
>> 3. Build and install the docs locally as part of the (in-progress)
>> debian package
>
> That would be good, but it's out of scope for this patch.

That's why they're feature requests.  

On the other hand, there is some time to clean things up since I won't
upload new packages to Debian before the next notmuch release. And I do
consider uploading a package to Debian to be an extra personal
responsibility, especially when it is part of notmuch that I am not
maintaining.

all the best,

d