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Re: Taking over setlocale



On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:33:35 +0200
Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2014, 10:31 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:50:38 +0200
> > Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear Sven,
> > > 
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.07.2014, 23:33 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> > > > To solve this problem, I rewrote the setlocale binding with the same API
> > > > under the BSD3-clause.
> > > 
> > > thanks for that. Can you, independently of the hackage process, upload
> > > that package to Debian, so that hgettext works again? I guess you’ll
> > > want to leave out the Homepage field for now, to not make false
> > > pretenses, but if it is API compatible there is nothing wrong with
> > > Debian providing a different package, if the original one is unusable.
> > 
> > Okay. For that reason I'm going to delete the original setlocale
> > repository from alioth and upload the new package as a native package.
> > Any problems with that?
> 
> it’s not a native package just because a DD is upstream; a native

Thanks for calling me DD. I'm really honoured :).

> package is something that makes no sense outside of Debian (think
> debian-policy).
> 
> I recommend to stick to the usual procedure completely, just to reduce
> friction.

Where would you suggest to put the upstream sources until I (hopefully)
can take it over at hackage?

Regards
Sven

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