[Haskell-cafe] ANN: wavconvert 0.1.1

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:51:04AM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:
> 
> What is the current recommended way to build debian packages?  I
> notice there's a step-by-step description at
> 
>   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Creating_Debian_packages_from_Cabal_package

That's the way I recommend.

> Any reason the manual steps here aren't automated?

There's not much benefit from automating them (although if someone did
so, with a nice way to edit the description etc, then it would be
handy). The vast majority of the time in creating Debian packages is:

Collecting the copyright info to put in debian/copyright.
In theory this is just taking the "copyright" field from the cabal
file, but it's often not that simple, e.g. the latest (1.4.2) X11
package claims:
    1999-2003, Alastair Reid
    2003-2007, libraries at haskell.org
but when packaging it I found:
    1997-2003, Alastair Reid
    2006, Frederik Eaton
    2007, Spencer Janssen
    2003-2007, libraries at haskell.org
in the sources, plus the copyright for the configure script.

Checking the Cabal package description is suitable, or writing a
suitable description.

Testing the package.


Thanks
Ian, who has no idea what "libraries at haskell.org" claiming copyright
     actually means, if anything