On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:51:04AM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:
>
> What is the current recommended way to build debian packages? I
> notice there's a step-by-step description at
>
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Creating_Debian_packages_from_Cabal_package
That's the way I recommend.
> Any reason the manual steps here aren't automated?
There's not much benefit from automating them (although if someone did
so, with a nice way to edit the description etc, then it would be
handy). The vast majority of the time in creating Debian packages is:
Collecting the copyright info to put in debian/copyright.
In theory this is just taking the "copyright" field from the cabal
file, but it's often not that simple, e.g. the latest (1.4.2) X11
package claims:
1999-2003, Alastair Reid
2003-2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but when packaging it I found:
1997-2003, Alastair Reid
2006, Frederik Eaton
2007, Spencer Janssen
2003-2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the sources, plus the copyright for the configure script.
Checking the Cabal package description is suitable, or writing a
suitable description.
Testing the package.
Thanks
Ian, who has no idea what "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" claiming copyright
actually means, if anything
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