On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM, David Bremner
Ketil Malde wrote:
Another Debian question, once I've populated the debian/ directory one way or another, how should this be integrated with the rest of the project? Should it be part of the darcs archive, or a separate archive (foo-debian), or what? How do people organize this?
debian-mentors@lists.debian.org is a good place for generic debian packaging questions. After you have a package which works, and which hopefully lintian (a tool for checking debian packages) does not complain about, you can ask on debian-mentors for a sponsor, who will check over the package and hopefully upload it. Right now there is not too much interest in uploading new packages, because people are trying to get lenny out the door.
I've personally had _very_ limited success in getting any haskell packages (both libs and apps) to attract any interest on debian-mentors. This is very unfortunate. I suspect this is due to haskell being an unknown language to most people on that list, and I also suspect that the rather strict (but completely called for) rules about dependencies and versions for haskell packages are unknown to most DDs. I've long thought that the DDs who are on debian-haskell are in an excellent position to change all of this, but I've never pushed very much on this. I've only ever gotten a single comment on an RFS for a haskell package. The comment was "scary looking package" (http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/10/msg00389.html). AFAICS there is great room for improvement here, but this conversation should probably move to debian-haskell or debian-mentor... /M