Bug#671752: Pinged packaging team's mailing list

[Christoph Egger]

Hi!

Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at gmail.com> writes:
>  (1) Does it seem sensible to package the manual as ecl-doc?

  I do think so, yes

>  (2) If so, since the manual is in a different upstream archive, should
>      the source package be split? (At the moment, the "ecl" source
>      package builds both the ecl and ecl-doc binaries)

  Jep that'd be the best way forward

>  (3) If so (again!), what can I do to help make it happen? I'll happily
>      set up an initial version of an "ecl-doc" package and put it on
>      mentors.debian.net, but I don't know if that's the right thing to
>      do, given this is already kind of an established package.

  As you might have noticed, the common lisp team is severly lacking
manpower so if you want to help out we're happy to take your help. I
guess you can also get commit access to the team's alioth repositories
so you can put the work on ecl-doc into a git
repository. Unfortunately -- as much as I'd want -- I can't really
promise you to be available for questions / help / uploading.

Regards

    Christoph