Op di, 30-05-2006 te 12:05 -0700, schreef Jeremy Shaw: > Hello, > > I have a first cut of a template for cabalizing and debianizing > haskell libraries. Do a, > > darcs get http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/cabalDebianTemplate > > ...and see the terse instructions in INSTRUCTIONS.txt. The > instructions assume you already know the basics of cabal and > debian. > > I have used the template to debianize or cabalize+debianize a few > third party libraries for local use, and it only takes 1-2 mins. Of > course, for local use I don't bother to update all the descriptions in > debian/control, etc. > > This version does not generate profiling libraries -- so if we decide > that it should, I will add that. > > My current plan is something like this: > > (1) Get a template hammered out that everyone likes (profiling, etc) > (2) Write some newbie friendly documentation for it > (3) Publish the docs on the wiki > (4) Write an script to automate the template->specific package > conversion process. > > It is possible that (4) may get moved between (1) and (2) depending on > how difficult and desirable it is. > > If you have any suggestions or improvements let me know. Well if a package would be based on this files with only the changes made were based on the instructions in the instruction file, I would not upload it to the Debian archive (if I were a DD), and from what I have seen on debian-mentors it isn't enough for sponsoring either.
Some points:
debian/control:
* duplicate build-dependencies: debhelper, ghc6 and
haskell-devscripts should not be Build-Depends-Indep
debian/rules:
* drop the CFLAGS we don't build C libraries but Haskell packages,
* drop DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE and DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE as we don't
call ./configure with these variables
* drop the INSTALL_PROGRAM cruft, this is deprecated by dh_strip.
* drop the configure target
* don't use hyphens at the beginning of a command to ignore
errors, for instance replace -./setup clean with
if [ -x setup ] && [ -e .setup-config ] ; then ./setup clean ; fi
* drop the unnecessary dh_FOO calls and commented out dh_FOO calls
You might want to look at the changes I made for the haskell-crypto [1]
and haskell-newbinary [2] packages (I am not the maintainer, so he might
not agree with all my changes) to see my ideas for the control and rules
file.
[1] dget
http://moonshine.dnsalias.org/debian/unstable/haskell-newbinary_0.0.20051211-3.2_i386.changes
[2] dget
http://moonshine.dnsalias.org/debian/unstable/haskell-crypto_2.0.3-4.2_i386.changes
Finally packages which are intended to be uploaded to Debian should not
be native packages but be cleanly split in a orig.tar.gz and a diff.gz
and don't include the _darcs directory.
Just my 2cents
Greetings Arjan
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