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Re: haskell-debian vs. newest HaXml



Simon Horman wrote:

> > I’m reluctant to agree here. Having two separate branches of the same
> > software in Debian should be the exception.
> 
> In my experience, having multiple versions of the same software,
> particularly libraries, is quite common in Debian. Perhaps this
> has changed recently?

This is and remains true for C libraries where SO versioning
takes care of linking. However, for any given library there
is usually only one -devel library.

Since all haskell libraries are statically linked, they are
in effect devel libraries.

Erik
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