I will see about changing cabal-debian to do this.
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > please be a bit more careful when packaging stuff. The following looks > like it was created with cabal-debian and the result was not manually > checked: > > Description: Date cacher > Formatting time is slow. This package provides > mechanisms to cache formatted dates. > . > Author: Kazu Yamamoto <[email protected]> > Upstream-Maintainer: Kazu Yamamoto <[email protected]> > . > This package contains the libraries compiled with profiling > enabled. > > Also, I find the blurbs that cabal-debian adds, namely > This package contains the normal library files. > This package contains the libraries compiled with profiling enabled. > This package contains the documentation files. > not very good, especially because the reader is not told what kind of > library that is. Why not use the the text from our template-debian > directory?: > > This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language. > See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell. > > This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language, > compiled > for profiling. See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on > Haskell. > > This package provides the documentation for a library for the Haskell > programming language. > See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell. > > > Personally, I don’t use cabal-debian (yet) and base new packages upon > the template files, so I leave the cabal-debian development to those who > do use it. > > Greetings, > Joachim > > -- > Joachim "nomeata" Breitner > Debian Developer > [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C > JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata >
