Re: [Pkg-haskell-commits] darcs: haskell-monad-journal: Initial Check-In

[Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org>]

From: Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [Pkg-haskell-commits] darcs: haskell-monad-journal: 
Initial Check-In
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:45:48 +0100

> These are missing the upper bounds in the build dependencies. A 
> Cabal
> dependency of "== 0.3.*" turns into
>
>   , libghc-transformers-dev (>= 0.3)
>   , libghc-transformers-dev (<< 0.4)

done

I'm wondering though, why do the dependencies need version bounds at
all doesn't the package plan take care of that?

> > +Files: debian/*
> > +Copyright: 2014 Daniel Gröber <dxld@darkboxed.org>
> > +License: GPL-3.0+
>
> There is no point in licensing the (mostly trivial) contents of 
> debian/
> any different than the software you are packaging. (I believe there 
> is
> no point in licensing it at all, but heh...)

I just copied that from one of my other packages ;) I'd make it public
domain but that's not possible in my country.

> I suggest to use this low-maintenance text for packages:
>
> Files: debian/*
> Copyright: held by the contributors mentioned in debian/changelog
> License: <pkgname> license

done

> (I assume the garbled umlauts are a problem of the mail hook, and 
> the
> files are proper UTF-8.)

You bet'cha, unless darcs messed with them.

I also pushed the ghc-mod packaging for your perusal.

--Daniel

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