Hi Marco (and anyone else following this bugreport), On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:47:42PM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
Jonas wrote: (...)Unfortunately - and confusing for you as user - the Haskell developers chose to not cooporate directly with the CDBS maintainers in maintaining a snippet for their needs but felt it better to maintain it on their own. :-(How do you suggest we to do? hlibrary.mk is very related to the dh_haskell* scripts also shipped in haskell-devscripts, and it would not make sense to release them separetly --- a newer version of hlibrary.mk would not work with older versions of dh_haskell* scripts, and vice-versa.
Good question. And please accept my apologies for not adressing you directly with my concern about this, letting you instead hear my opinion indirectly through a bugreport like this.
I feel it best to maintain CDBS snippets as part of the cdbs package itself, so that the coding style can most easily be kept in sync across snippets.
The cdbs package is maintained in the collab-maint group at Alioth which means all Debian developers already have write access and anyone else can request membership of the group as well - just mention your reason for needing such membership when requesting it: for helping co-maintain cdbs.
If Haskell is too fast-moving for maintainance with cdbs, then it might make sense to separate tiny parts into something shipped with the Haskel tools - similar to how Python ships their competing python-central and puthon-module tools, which several CDBS snippets then make use of through a commandline interface.
Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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