Hi, Am Sonntag, den 18.01.2009, 10:03 -0800 schrieb Don Stewart: > fw: > > * John Goerzen: > > > > > What are the major challenges towards being able to automatically > > > convert Hackage/Cabal packages into Debian source packages? > > > > Someone needs to maintain *all* packages in stable. The upload to > > unstable and fixing integration issues is only part of the work. > > This can be done almost entirely automatically, though, can't it? no, not really. Packages need to be signed by a developer. And signing packages that have been built automatically somewhere requires some trust in that machine... it just doesn’t fit Debian’s workflow to do such things automatically. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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