Re: Making cabal-debian an official tool

That is great news! I think my preference would be to move it to github.com (I was actually in the process of doing this today - is it ok if I proceed?) and continue to be the upstream developer - there are some ugly corners I hope to gradually smooth out. I would hate for anyone to see the module Debian.Debianize.Finalize who didn't absolutely have to...

On the other hand, I'm fine with debian/patches if that is better for you than the github mechanisms. Mostly I don't want for there to be a fork - nobody has the time and energy for that. I'm pretty sure Debian specific patches belong in the upstream - after all, this is a Debian specific program! The stuff that says "lost in the mists of time" can certainly be removed - I'm positive nobody out there is still using them.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

at and after the DebConf talk we decided that we really should be
creating our Debian packaging more automatically, and we need a tool for
that. And cabal-debian is already such a tool! So we should use it.

Currently, it is not quite good enough; there are a few things that it
could or should be doing differently, or where best practices have
changed a litte (e.g. watch files). So I’d like to find out how best to
develop these changes.

David, I assume that you are using cabal-debian at Seereason, so you
might not want our changes without checking them. Do you have a
suggestion on how we should do this? Should we simply keep the
Debian-specific patches in debian/patches? Should we have a fork from
which you sync occasionally? Should we reverse it, i.e. we become the
primary maintainer, and you submit your patches (if any)?

Also, cabal-debian --help says things like
(This is an option whose use case is lost in the mists of time.)
We certainly do not use these things. Should we simply remove it and
clean it up a bit?

Greetings,
Joachim

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