Re: Contributing, copilot 0.14, and ogma
On Sun, 9 Apr 2023, Ivan Perez wrote:
Hi everyone,
We've published a new version of copilot 0.14 in March. I thought that
perhaps I could use that as my first contribution to debian-haskell and send
a PR. It's a small step, but hopefully it'll allow me in the future to help
with other packages. Thoughts?
Also, there's a NASA application that I'd be very happy if it could be
included in debian. It's ogma (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ogma-cli).
It's composed of 9 packages, but otherwise it's not very dependency heavy. I
don't expect the dependencies to grow in the future. libghc-copilot-dev could
be recommended with Ogma; it's not currently required (some use cases do not
require Haskell knowledge), but Copilot may be linked in ogma in future
releases.
Hey Ivan,
Debian is currently in a "hard freeze" state[1] for the Bookworm release.
This means that really only small-targeted fixes can be made in the
testing release. Technically, updated packages can be uploaded to
unstable (but not migrate to testing), but this is generally discouraged
since if a fix is needed in testing, it has to go through unstable, so
those changes in unstable would have to be reverted.
Adding new packages, on the other hand, is probably fine (assuming they
don't require any changes/updates to existing packages) - they just won't
migrate to testing until after the Bookworm release. So, if you wanted to
take a stab at packaging some new packages, that's probably fine.
Scott
[1] https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html#hard
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