Re: New Package Developer
"Shawn P. Garbett" <listman@garbett.org> writes:
> I'm trying to put together a new package for Debian. I know very little about
> it other than an online tutorial I've gone through.
Have you read the New Maintainers Guide? After that you should be
pretty much able to make packages. More info can be found in the
debian-policy if needed.
> First am I in the right group to ask questions?
The best group would be debian-mentors
> refering to things like '/usr/lib/ghc-5.02.2/'. Which is highly version
> specific and I'd like to make it at least generic to ghc-5. How can I amend
> the makefiles to take into account the version of ghc installed?
You could try to parse the output of 'ghc --version'
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