[Debian-in-workers] Indic language hyphenation packages update

[Balasankar C]

On ശനി 10 ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 2015 11:21 രാവിലെ, Balasankar C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On ബുധന്‍ 05 ആഗസ്റ്റ് 2015 09:03 രാവിലെ, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
>
> > The original packagers for those packages are currently MIA. And as I
> > told earlier I don't have enough time to spend on fixing and updating
> > the pacakges. So if any one cares about their status in Debian I think
> > its the right time they step in and take over the maintenance.
>
> I am a user of Malayalam hyphenation and would like it to be included in
> Debian. I know about the existing repo in alioth, but since it was
> outdated I decided to prepare the packaging of latest version. As
> hyphen-* packages doesn't updates frequently, I think I can handle the
> maintenance of it.
> Since I wasn't interested in (and am almost a noob when it comes to)
> packaging using CDBS, I prepared the package using debhelper and have
> pushed the result to my personal Gitlab repo [1]. There are a few doubts
> I would like to clear before I push it to alioth repo
>
> 1. Should I just delete the existing repo and create a new one? Or
> should I update the existing repo and replace the contents of debian/
> subdirectory? I was thinking of doing the first one, since the package
> is not yet in the archive and hence have no 'packaging history' to be
> preserved. Still, I have no issues with the second choice also.
>
> 2. How should the watch file be formed, since upstream serves all
> hyphen-* packages in a single repo? Can we restructure the existing
> setup and consider a package named hyphen-indic which creates all the
> individual binaries? In that case, I think the maintenance would be
> easier as we need to take care of only a single upstream source.
>
>
For got to add the link to my personal repo. Here it is - http://gitlab.com/balasankarc/hyphen-ml

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Balasankar C
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