Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 07.10.2009, 23:49 +0100 schrieb Iain Lane: > With regards to the platform, I can't help but feel that we are lacking > in some way. One feature that upstream pushes is that by installing the > platform you know which versions of the libraries and tools you are > getting. We seem to be going for more of a best-effort solution. > > I don't think we have release goals as a team yet, but if we were to, I > would propose that one of them be Haskell platform compliance. > > With this in mind, I wonder if it would be an idea for us to have both > minimum and maximum dependencies, so that we only have a compliant > platform in testing at any one time, which all migrates in one shot (the > 'trigger' being pulled would be a new haskell-platform upload). Of > course problems come when applications force us to deviate, as happened > with Darcs and -zlib recently. Not sure if this is a big problem. I expect that we will update packages mentioned in the platform only if a) their version is bumped in the platform or b) a program (like darcs) needs the newer version we will always be sufficiently close to the platform, at least in unstable. Whether this will also be true about testing, we will see. > This is only my initial thoughts. I won't argue too strongly for this > or try to block progress. In particular, I think that the draft package > looks fine to be uploaded now - we can address such issues in a future > revision. Testing migration is still a little while off anyway. Uploaded. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim Breitner e-Mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de Homepage: http://www.joachim-breitner.de ICQ#: 74513189 Jabber-ID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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