Bug#877331: sponsorship-requests: nix/1.1.15 (ITP 877019) -- Purely functional package manager
[2018-12-27 11:24] Kai Harries <kai.harries@gmail.com>
> > [2018-02-26 22:46] Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
> >> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:14:37PM +0100, Kai Harries wrote:
> >> > > The source package you've uploaded is broken, as .dsc mentions
> >> > > nix_1.11.15-2~a1.debian.tar.xz.
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > What is state of affairs with packaging nix? I am interested in getting
> > things done, maybe I could contribute somehow?
>
> We need to discuss with ftp-masters if we can get an exemption from
> the non-standard-toplevel-dir lintian rule (see this bug [1]). I am
> still planning to write a request to them, do you know if
> ftpmaster@debian.org would be the right address to start this
> discussion?
Probably not. Violations of FHS is violation of policy, and to get
authorization to policy violation is long road, starting with discussion
on debian-devel@.
But, can't we just configure Nix to store it under /var/nix?
> Furthermore I am waiting for the 2.2 Nix upstream release (see here [2])
> the master was not buildable for me the last time I tried it (see here
> [3]).
I will take a look.
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