Bug#877331: sponsorship-requests: nix/1.1.15 (ITP 877019) -- Purely functional package manager
Kai Harries <kai.harries@gmail.com> writes:
> Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org> writes:
>
>> [2018-02-26 22:46] Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
>>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:14:37PM +0100, Kai Harries wrote:
>>> > > The source package you've uploaded is broken, as .dsc mentions
>>> > > nix_1.11.15-2~a1.debian.tar.xz.
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> What is state of affairs with packaging nix? I am interested in getting
>> things done, maybe I could contribute somehow?
>
> We need to discuss with ftp-masters if we can get an exemption from
> the non-standard-toplevel-dir lintian rule (see this bug [1]). I am
> still planning to write a request to them, do you know if
> ftpmaster@debian.org would be the right address to start this
> discussion?
Send out a request to ftpmaster.
>
> Furthermore I am waiting for the 2.2 Nix upstream release (see here [2])
> the master was not buildable for me the last time I tried it (see here
> [3]).
>
> Help with this or some of the other minor issues is welcome.
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/KaiHa/nix-debian/issues/20
> [2] https://github.com/KaiHa/nix-debian/issues/9
> [3] https://github.com/KaiHa/nix-debian/issues/21
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