forking privately in Debian

Joachim, the key is probably to implement patch support in srcinst and actually implement something nice which I think has nice applications.

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:

1. John Goerzen doesn't want to/can't continue maintaining it
2. is written in Haskell and you know Haskell
3. 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'