Re: hinotify

["R. Andrew Bailey" <bailey@akamai.com>]

On 17/12/10 10:56 -0600, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 16.12.2010, 21:28 -0500 schrieb R. Andrew Bailey:
>
> Depending on your own motivation and goals, you can then eventually
> start the New Maintainer process, in order to become a full Debian
> Developer – which is always good, but my no means a requirement for
> being a useful member of the DHG.

I would definitely like to do that. Perhaps working with the group now
would be a good way to warm up before taking on a package. I'll sign
up on Alioth now.

> Now about hinotify, some questions and hits about the packaging, in
> random order as I quickly look over it.
>
> Did you subscribe to d-haskell? You should if you want to work in the
> DHG, I’ll stop CC’ing you then.

yep, just last night!

> You say it’s for a feature in xmobar. Does the xmobar package need to be
> modified for that? If yes, did you talk with the xmobar maintainer (not
> a member of the DHG) about that?

It will- the good news is that its enabled via an existing flag, so
the xmobar change will be pretty minimal. I haven't spoken to the
owner yet, as I figure he or she would be delighted to find that I had
already taken care of the dependency before asking that the feature be
enabled. I will do that now.

> You checked in generated files such as .dsc and .tar.gz into your git
> repository. This is uncommon, for good reasons; only check in manually
> edited files. For the DHG repository, there are processes described on
> the Debian wiki.

Will do- I've been checking everything in since I was initially a
little nervous that I'd lose files through my inexperience with the
tools. I'd was experimenting with changing the names of things to
satisfy dpkg-buildpackage, which you have (and I'm very grateful as it
was driving me crazy) answered in the next sentence :)

> The source package name ought to read „haskell-hinotify“.

will fix at once!

thanks!

 .andy

p.s. also apologies for butchering some of the characters in the message, I
need to do a little mutt tweaking I think.


> Greetings,
> Joachim