Debian Packaging

We are tying make an app to track progress of this effort. See more info at http://piratepad.ca/TlEP1VOwGF

If anyone interest to help out jump in, we need coding help.

Cedric has created this dependency graph http://people.debian.org/~boutil/diaspora/deps.pdf You can visually track the progress now - we need to make all the circles green!

We had to spend some extra effort working on an obsolete gem :( Can someone respond to this https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/3735 ? I requested the removal of this package on the same day it entered!

Capistrano-Ext has been dropped, should be good now. :)

Current documentation: http://wiki.debian.org/Diaspora/Packaging

Progress Bar: http://vps.aneesh.nl/diaspora.html

Awesome. I'd love to get the existing Debian packages copied over to our Ubuntu PPA as well. :)

Well personally I'd be happier just doing it the RVM way. IMHO forcing users to install all the Ruby gems to the system is a bit restrictive and to make installation easy for anyone we can pull the gems under the users RVM installation easily without having to touch the system Ruby.

(previous comment about Ubuntu PPA - Debian packaging team has chosen their path :))

bundler makes it easy install the gems using the system ruby without actually installing them system wide too, no need for RVM ;)

Yeah, that is an option too. But packaging all the gems for Ubuntu is imho a very slow process.

But of course the packaging of the gems effort is absolutely fabulous anyway - I'm sure the Debian community appreciates. Great work :)