Re: Debian haskell packaging: We're way behind
* Don Stewart:
> fw:
>> * John Goerzen:
>>
>> > What are the major challenges towards being able to automatically
>> > convert Hackage/Cabal packages into Debian source packages?
>>
>> Someone needs to maintain *all* packages in stable. The upload to
>> unstable and fixing integration issues is only part of the work.
>
> This can be done almost entirely automatically, though, can't it?
Depends. Security support for a branch which is not active upstream
anymore is usually tricky and can require quite a lot of work in
specific instances.
(And not all security issues are due to side effects, so Haskell isn't
immune. 8-)
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