[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#718018: ITP: haskell-swish -- semantic web toolkit

[Philip Hands]

Sorry about that -- I should almost certainly have sent that to the
pkg-haskell-maintainers list (which I'd overlooked), so please follow-up
there.

Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> writes:

> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
>>
>> * Package name    : haskell-swish
>>   Version         : 0.9.0.3
>>   Upstream Author : Douglas Burke <dburke at cfa.harvard.edu>
>> * URL             : https://bitbucket.org/doug_burke/swish/wiki/Home
>> * License         : GPL-2+~Swish
>>   Programming Lang: Haskell
>>   Description     : semantic web toolkit
>
> Hi,
>
> Having just had a very frustrating conversation about this ITP with
> Jonas, it seems that he has only a passing familiarity with Haskell, did
> not bother to request packaging by the Debian Haskell Group (which to me
> as an outsider seems to be the natural home for such a package), and
> imagined that he was a member of DHG when he in fact is not (which seems
> bizarre, and a little worrying).
>
> On the other hand, he claims that it was always his intent to have the
> package team-maintained, so perhaps he is just doing all the bits in the
> wrong order.
>
> I would suggest that this bug be treated as a RFP rather than an ITP.
>
> I would also suggest that ftpmasters reject any haskell package uploaded
> by Jonas, at least until he bothers to have a reasonable discussion
> about the best way to proceed on the debian-haskell list.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
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