I'm packaging a Haskell project that needs the now-discontinued haskell-download-curl. (Discontinued in Debian, not discontinued on Hackage.)
This gives me a problem, of course. However, my package is unlikely to end up in Debian, and will most likely just be distributed within my company by hosting it on our internal repo. (Although it is open-source: https://github.com/neilmayhew/RepoExplorer/). So the easiest solution I could see was for me to resurrect the debian directory for haskell-download-curl and host it myself. I did this by cloning DHG_packages and using git filter-branch to extract just p/haskell-download-curl/. I added a couple of commits changing the maintainer and VCS address and adding a new README, and pushed the result to github: https://github.com/neilmayhew/haskell-download-curl The package builds using pbuilder, and my main program is able to build against it, also in pbuilder. Is this an OK thing to do, and are there any details I haven't got right, particularly regarding attribution and copyright? I don't have a LICENSE file at the top level yet because I didn't see a copyright statement for the packaging itself. The one in debian/copyright appears to be for the upstream source rather than the packaging.
