That is great news! I think my preference would be to move it to github.com (I was actually in the process of doing this today - is it ok if I proceed?) and continue to be the upstream developer - there are some ugly corners I hope to gradually smooth out. I would hate for anyone to see the module Debian.Debianize.Finalize who didn't absolutely have to...
On the other hand, I'm fine with debian/patches if that is better for you than the github mechanisms. Mostly I don't want for there to be a fork - nobody has the time and energy for that. I'm pretty sure Debian specific patches belong in the upstream - after all, this is a Debian specific program! The stuff that says "lost in the mists of time" can certainly be removed - I'm positive nobody out there is still using them. On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > at and after the DebConf talk we decided that we really should be > creating our Debian packaging more automatically, and we need a tool for > that. And cabal-debian is already such a tool! So we should use it. > > Currently, it is not quite good enough; there are a few things that it > could or should be doing differently, or where best practices have > changed a litte (e.g. watch files). So I’d like to find out how best to > develop these changes. > > David, I assume that you are using cabal-debian at Seereason, so you > might not want our changes without checking them. Do you have a > suggestion on how we should do this? Should we simply keep the > Debian-specific patches in debian/patches? Should we have a fork from > which you sync occasionally? Should we reverse it, i.e. we become the > primary maintainer, and you submit your patches (if any)? > > Also, cabal-debian --help says things like > (This is an option whose use case is lost in the mists of time.) > We certainly do not use these things. Should we simply remove it and > clean it up a bit? > > Greetings, > Joachim > > > -- > Joachim "nomeata" Breitner > Debian Developer > [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F > JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata > >
