On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, 5:57 pm Chris Lamb, <la...@debian.org> wrote: > So, Haskell packages use cdbs calling into a > Haskell-specific hlibrary.mk. > > I mean we could certainly just whitelist all of src:haskell-*, but > isn't the entire point of this tag to ask people to move to the dh > sequencer? Or is it "actually fine" for them to use hlibrary.mk and > this will just save the Haskell team whole bunch of boilerplate > overrides with an identical explanation? >
I think in the long run, haskell should move to dh as well. ISTR in the past somebody actually started writing a dh-haskell "buildsystem" as well, but it had some shortcomings and the thing was abandoned before it got good enough to be used. I think you should whitelist all Haskell packages for now: once a dh tool/buildsystem to deal with Haskell packages is ready, most likely *all* Haskell packages will move at once, at which point that exception can be lifted. Anyway, CCing d-haskell@ for input as well. > > > c) The severity (ie. E/W/I/P) > > > > I'd recommend starting out with warning. Some day it might move to > > error, but I think starting out there would be overly aggressive. > > My experience of Lintian suggests that W: would be too strong to start > with. Sam, would you be okay with "I:" to begin with? > Yes I sounds much better than W.
