Re: haskell-platform package format

[twb@cybersource.com.au (Trent W. Buck)]

Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> writes:

>> I noticed haskell-platform package contains a directory called debian
>> inside the darcs repository.  It seems to be the only one using this
>> format.  Is there a rationale for that, or is it like that by mistake?
>
> it’s intentional. The haskell-platform package it not a Debian packaging
> of some upstream project, but rather a Debian native package (that
> happens to have no files in the root directory, because it’s just a meta
> package).

You could put this text in a ./README in that repo, to avoid confusion
for the next person :-)