Hi team, After several years heavily involved with the Tidalcycles project, I'd somehow missed that there was a native debian package available - libghc-tidal-dev It is an older release in ubuntu 22.04 bookworm, but seems to be absent from sid (backport only): https://packages.debian.org/sid/libghc-tidal-dev
I'd like to get it back/up to date. As an introduction, in 2004 I deployed and continue to maintain an in-house custom debian-based distribution at De Bortoli Wines (currently ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but has included debian sid in the late 2010s due to the importance of the changes coming into packages like libreoffice). This distribution runs on about 80% of our ~280 desktops. There are a small number of custom packages of various complexity required which I maintain the source code for in git and deploy via our own reprepro instance. This workflow has been in place for over a decade - so I'm at least familiar with the structure of debian source package management and have attempted to create "sensible" packages by following the advice of lintian during their creation/maintenance. I've always been interested in using these skills to contribute back to debian, but finding time/a suitable package etc has been the challenge. My young family has now grown older which is affording me a little more time, and my interest in the tidalcycles project itself is going on 5 years - so I'm hoping that I can offer myself as a resource to begin looking after some of the maintenance of the libghc-tidal-dev package and begin my journey into contributing to the debian project. I've never maintained a package for debian-proper before, but I understand there are a number of levels of mentorship (essentially) that I will need to go through - so I'm hoping that someone will be able to assist/support me in beginning this journey! Thanks for your consideration - Bernard Gray
