On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:42:55PM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > > I would think it saves us some work this way. > > > > Why's that? > > I would like to fix a bug in xmonad, but when I build xmonad, I have to > manually upload a new xmonad-contrib packages (involving changelog > bumps, re-generating control, building, uploading – all routine, but > still troulbe and a time waster). If we could (cheaply, or even > automatically) do binNMUs, this wouldn’t be such a big deal.
Right, so which is better depends on whether it is easier to do 1 source upload, or to trigger a binNMU on every arch. In some cases you'll want to rebuild some or all of the dependent packages for testing, of course. > > We'd need to generate the strict binary-deps on the Cabal package at > > build time rather than in "debian/rules update-generated-files". > > Yes, but that’d be possible? After all, it’s similar to what > dpkg-shlibdebs does, right? Yes, it's certainly possible. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ debian-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/debian-haskell
