[Haskell-cafe] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Mon Apr 18 12:07:38 CEST 2011


Hi,

Am Montag, den 18.04.2011, 07:06 -0300 schrieb Felipe Almeida Lessa:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Joachim Breitner
> <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> > Also, the policies that make life a bit more harder for us are also the
> > policies that make Debian a good distribution: E.g. manually creating a
> > copyright file describing who all has copyright on the files, and what
> > license the files are under – .cabal has fields for that, but
> > unfortunately, they very often do not reflect the reality of the .hs
> > files. Or the other one, requiring that an upload of a source package is
> > accompanied by a manually built and signed binary package ensures that
> > the maintainer actually checked that the package builds and hopefully
> > has tested it.
> 
> Is it a good solution to have a Debian package containing many Cabal
> packages?  For example, 'opengl-utils' with all OpenGL-related
> packages?  Maybe this could be a good compromise.

it’s something that I have in mind to resort to eventually, but our
tools currently assume one cabal package per Debian package – but
nothing that cannot be fixed.

Greetings,
Joachim

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