I would be a little sad to see the parsing of a debianization go, though I'm not sure I use that feature in real life. Today I am going to take a stab at the second option (making it do what we want it to do) and if that doesn't work I will consider the first option (simplified cabal-debian.) I have a feeling that as I work on it I might end up leaning towards the first option even if I am able to fix the copyright inputting. Splitting the package in two could be the best of both options.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Joachim Breitner <nome...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi David, > > the progress of making cabal-debian the default tool for creating new > Debian packages has stalled. The particular issue at hand is > https://github.com/ddssff/cabal-debian/issues/7 > where I could not make it work with --compare, partly due to lack of > understanding of cabal-debian’s internal design. > > It seems that some of the complexity causing this slow down is due to > features like reading data from a debian/ directory, e.g. in order to > merge or compare. As nice as it is to have these things – for our uses > we don’t need that. Especially as there is now the general "debdry" > wrapper (https://packages.debian.org/sid/debdry) which can provide the > functionality of adjusting the output of auto-generated packaging > directories. > > I think I would already work with a cabal-debian-like tool if I had a > simple one-way > "cabal + command line flags + global information → debian/" conversion > tool that would be much simpler to hack on. > > So I see a few ways forward: > * It turns out that you also don’t need anything else besides this > feature. We can take cabal-debian and simplify it greatly. > * You need the advanced features, and you (or some else of course) > figure out how to still make it do what we want it to do. > * It makes sense for fork or rewrite the tool > (cabal-debian-simple, cabal-debian-official, cabal-debian-DHG or > whatever), fully suited for our needs. > > What’s your opinion on this? > > Greetings, > Joachim > > -- > Joachim "nomeata" Breitner > Debian Developer > nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F > JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata > >
