Stéphane Glondu: > On 16/07/2017 22:15, Hendrik Tews wrote: >>>> IMO, a proper solution would require packaging topkg and, in the >>>> long run, also odig. What do you think? >>> >>> I agree. Feel free to do it! I'm not planning to do it right now, unless >>> it is absolutely necessary for the transition. >> >> I just see: topkg depends on Fmt, Logs, Bos, Cmdliner and >> opam-format. Out of this only cmlliner is currently in Debian, >> right? > > Right. > > This balkanization of OCaml packages is horrifying. >
It might be worth writing an automated tool to convert a github repo containing an opam package, into a Debian package. We're doing that for rust with the debcargo(1) tool. licensecheck can also help to generate d/copyright files by scanning file headers, even if it's not in the opam metadata. X -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
