On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Trent W. Buck
<trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Kari Pahula <
kaol@debian.org> writes:
> Though now I'm thinking that it's not generally a good idea to expect
> an one to one mapping from cabal names to libghc6-*-dev names anyway,
> but better to look at what files you are using and what package they
> belong to.
cabal-debian could do this using apt-file(1), I guess.
Currently cabal-debian uses the debOfFile function in Distribution.Package.Debian, which looks at /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list to compute which package a file is in.