Re: cmdliner 1.0.0 uses topkg for building
Stéphane Glondu:
> On 16/07/2017 22:15, Hendrik Tews wrote:
>>>> IMO, a proper solution would require packaging topkg and, in the
>>>> long run, also odig. What do you think?
>>>
>>> I agree. Feel free to do it! I'm not planning to do it right now, unless
>>> it is absolutely necessary for the transition.
>>
>> I just see: topkg depends on Fmt, Logs, Bos, Cmdliner and
>> opam-format. Out of this only cmlliner is currently in Debian,
>> right?
>
> Right.
>
> This balkanization of OCaml packages is horrifying.
>
It might be worth writing an automated tool to convert a github repo containing an opam package, into a Debian package. We're doing that for rust with the debcargo(1) tool.
licensecheck can also help to generate d/copyright files by scanning file headers, even if it's not in the opam metadata.
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