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Re: GHC 6.10.1 uploaded to experimental



On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:24:34PM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
> I've just uploaded haddock 2.4.1-1, ghc6 6.10.1-1 and a new build of
> mtl library to experimental.

Great stuff!

> I'm not quite sure about what to do with haskell-utils.  While there
> isn't anything fundamentally wrong with it, I still don't like its way
> of building haskell library packages.  I know that I'll convert any
> packages that I'm going to adopt, that use it, to haskell-devscripts
> along the way.  I'll be adopting Igloo's library packages along the
> way, unless someone wants to call dibs.

If no-one's using it, feel free to remove it.

> As for the other thing that haskell-utils does, namely maintaining
> /var/lib/haskell-utils/compilers (see haskell-utils(8))...  I don't
> know.  AFAIK it's not used for anything, currently.

It used to be used for hmake. If it's not, or if triggers now provide a
better way of doing it, then again feel free to remove it.

> Can anyone think
> of a scenario where it could be useful?

> I don't expect to be maintaining multiple versions of GHC in Debian.

Something I never got around to doing was making it easy to use the
source packages to build a package called "ghc6.10.1" instead of
"ghc6", so that people could easily have multiple versions installed.
You'd probably run "make -f debian/rules versionise-me-please" before
building the package, and it would do some sedding or something. You'd
need to make sure that the paths didn't overlap, of course.

Binaries could be put in a different .deb archive, if people were
motivated to build and upload them. For bonus points, change the library
packaging to make building libghc6.10.1-foo-dev easy too.

That doesn't really have anything to do with what haskell-utils(8) is
for, but I just thought I'd mention it anyway.

> I'm not sure how handling documentation like this plays along with
> hugs.  It may be enough if /usr/share/doc/$(whatever)-doc/html/ was a
> symlink to the corresponding directory under
> /usr/share/doc/ghc6-doc/libraries/.

Better would be for the symlink to point the other way, IMO.


Thanks
Ian


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