[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#573925: How should the Haskell maintainers work then?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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

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