It might be nice to combine srcinst with debian-xcontrol to obtain also customizable dependencies (e.g. no arts support).
I guess you'll be the best person to take over srcinst since:
- John Goerzen doesn't want to/can't continue maintaining it
- is written in Haskell and you know Haskell
- source is available for grabs from http://darcs.complete.org/srcinst/
The basic idea is to have another command[1] wrap aptitude/apt-get/srcinst and make sure it does the proper job, depending on the local configuration.
[1] let's say, the debtoo command - srcinst should remain the tool for clear 'from source installs'
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Wouldn't apt-build be an option, too?
At least it has a "--patch" option already to apply a patch before building.
probably apt-build is ok, but he needs to remember to always update that package manually via apt-build
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