On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi David, > > Am Mittwoch, den 05.05.2010, 05:52 -0700 schrieb David Fox: > > I have pushed patches to http://seereason.com/darcs which address all > > these issues except the case sensitivity. I will address that and > > then see about uploading the newest version to hackage. > > I found 3.47 on hackage and think it is fit for uploading to Debian; > just did that. > > I did patch the cabal file though, to avoid the dependency on HUnit. You > could make that dependent on a flag (-f-testing) to be extra-nice, but > it’s not important. > > Man pages for the utilities would be more important. Maybe this is > another job where non-DD could bring themselves in? > > Also, cabal-debian does not create packages fully in sync with our > current practice. Some points I spot are > * Does not create Provides, Recommends and Suggests fields > * Only build-depending on -prof, and not on -dev, works, but it would > not be consistent with how we do it (B-D on both, version constraints > only on -dev). > * No VCS Headers, of course > * Section misc, not haskell for the source > * Priority optinal, not extra > * maybe more > > Our current templates are found in > http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/tools/template-debian/ > > David, I understand that not all these changes fit in the way you use > cabal-debian. But maybe a flag --packaging-style could be introduced to > cater for different preferences? Then this would be a very useful tool > for use inside the DHG as well. > > Again, I don’t think I can work on that as well myself, but maybe > someone else in the DHG is interested in doing that, i.e. providing > David with the patches to make cabal-debian a great tool for our use? > > Greetings, > Joachim > > I am pleased to make it as debian conforming as I can. It seems quite appropriate, given that it is a debian package with the word "debian" in its name. -david
