Re: Debian Haskell Platform status and bug reports

[Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>]

jgoerzen:
> Don Stewart wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Can anyone update me on the status of Debian support for the Haskell Platform?
> > 
> >     http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
> 
> There has been talk on the mailing list about it.  We'd probably make
> haskell-platform a metapackage that depends on all the components.  We
> need to regress some of the components to older versions first, though.
>  I've not been directly involved so someone else can speak better.


Yes, that's a concern with Arch Linux too. We had to regress some
things. We currently don't use a true meta package (i.e. we run the
Setup.hs for the actual platform .cabal file, which does additional
sanity checking).

The need to regress things is a bit awkward: likely that'll go away in
2009.2.1 (where we bump things if the API is compat.)

> > Secondly, the generic unix installer has a bug report against it on
> > Debian only:
> > 
> >     http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/32
> > 
> > Relating to editline not being found.
> > 
> > Can someone elaborate/close the ticket?
> 
> I think somebody just tried to build it without installing editline.  I
> made a note on the ticket.
> 

Yep, I've closed that. Thanks!

-- Don