Bug#930679: Please add overridable tag for not using dh sequencer

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 930679 + moreinfo
thanks

Felix Lechner wrote:

> > > It would be even better to detect some of the adequate justifications
> > > automatically like  Haskell packages.
> 
> I think Sam meant that some circumstances should always prevent the
> issuance of the tag, so developers are not burdened with the override.
> Apparently, Haskell packages do not use dh but cabal. [1]

Let's 100% nail this bit down so we don't confuse each other and annoy
other maintainers. So, Haskell packages use cdbs calling into a
Haskell-specific hlibrary.mk.

  1 #!/usr/bin/make -f
  2 
  3 DEB_SETUP_BIN_NAME = debian/hlibrary.setup
  4 DEB_CABAL_PACKAGE = yi-misc-modes
  5 DEB_DEFAULT_COMPILER = ghc
  6 
  7 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
  8 include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/hlibrary.mk

I mean we could certainly just whitelist all of src:haskell-*, but
isn't the entire point of this tag to ask people to move to the dh
sequencer? Or is it "actually fine" for them to use hlibrary.mk and
this will just save the Haskell team whole bunch of boilerplate
overrides with an identical explanation?

> > c) The severity (ie. E/W/I/P)
>
> I'd recommend starting out with warning.  Some day it might move to
> error, but I think starting out there would be overly aggressive.

My experience of Lintian suggests that W: would be too strong to start
with. Sam, would you be okay with "I:" to begin with?


Best wishes,

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