Re: Debian haskell packaging: We're way behind

[Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>]

fw:
> * 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-)

Have there been security issues in Haskell packages in the past?

-- Don