experimental updates for haskell-debian and cabal-debian?
Hey, all,
So I was attempting to use cabal-debian to create a package for a
library I wanted to check out, but it failed complaining that it didn't
know anything about ghc-7.6.2.
Creating a patch to add that information seemed within even my Haskell
powers, which I proceeded to do, only to run into the problem that the
cabal-debian package won't compile against the haskell-debian package
currently in experimental.
That turned into a much more extensive patching session, which I later
discovered was unnecessary because both packages had been updated
upstream. At least I learned a bit. ;)
Anyway, ISTM that these should be updated in experimental. I'm happy to
try and do this---that said, while I'm fluent in git, I'm a total newbie
in darcs.
I've read the Darcs intro on the wiki, and I think there are some
unstated assumptions that are confusing me, so I wanted to confirm.
First, do I understand correctly that the only thing being put into
darcs is the debian/ directory? So the .orig.tar.gz and other files
exist entirely elsewhere?
(This may seem obvious, but I'm used to a git+pristine-tar workflow that
keeps everything accessible from git.)
So to update a package would involve, say:
apt-get source <pkg>
cd <src>
uupdate ../<new .tar.gz>
cd ../<new-src>
mv debian debian.updated
darcs get darcs.debian.org:/darcs/pkg-haskell/<pkg>
<maybe re-run cabal-debian, do any other updates, test build>
darcs record -a
<build and upload>
Does that sound sensible at least?
Mike.
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