Bug#1012286: RFS: zig/0.9.1-1 [ITP] -- Programming language

[Nick Hastings <nicholaschastings@gmail.com>]

Hi Adam,

wow, this is unfortunate - gmail flagged this as spam and I only just saw
it now. So please don't interpret my late reply as being from a lack of
motivation.

* Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> [220603 23:34]:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 09:38:37AM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
> >  * Package name    : zig
> >  * URL             : https://github.com/ziglang/zig
> >  * License         : Expat, Apache-2, Apache-2 with LLVM exception,
> >                      CC0, BSD-2-Clause, and LGPL-2+
> >  * Vcs             : https://github.com/NickHastings/zig-debian
> 
> > zig - Imperative, general-purpose, statically typed, system programming language
> 
> Hi!
> Worst news first: the copyright file requires a lot more work.  I see for
> example unlisted Khronos stuff (lib/libc/include/any-windows-any/{GL,KHR}/),
> NTP (lib/libc/include/any-linux-any/linux/timex.h), Zope (mingw), ISC,
> Apache, APSL, ...  And the list of copyright holders is even more
> incomplete.  This is a big honking waste of time but it's
> required... :(

I actually already put quite a bit of effort into the copyright file,
but it has been a very long time since I last worked on it.

Taking a quick look now I wonder if maybe I have overlooked include
directories, perhaps assuming that anything in there would be covered by
src directories. Or maybe I'd just become burned out with it and wanted
to move on!

Anyway I think I'm ready to dive back in.

> The package includes a bunch of tests, and with the likelihood of code not
> handling a particular arch, glibc, etc, I'd say it's a must to run
> them.

Ok, I'll investigate running the tests.

> Not a strict requirement, but a man page would be greatly appreciated.

Will put it on the todo list, but hopefully I can get upstream to do
something on that front.

Thanks for taking interest in this package.

Cheers,

Nick.