Please use Vcs fields in new Haskell packages

Clint Adams clint at debian.org
Thu Jan 15 14:37:50 GMT 2026


On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 12:07:36PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>However, this is not the case for haskell-replace-megaparsec[3].

Thanks for pointing this out.

>I assume you have some method to create new packages semi-automatically.
>May I suggest you extend this procedure to make sure Vcs fields will be
>included?  This could help avoiding such most probably unwanted
>missings.

Our tooling to do exactly this, but I use it incorrectly due
to habit.

Specifically, I have been invoking cabal-debian directly,
forgetting the `--official` flag, when I should be using
`dht init`.

Hopefully I remember to do this next time.



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