Re: ghc6 6.12.1-6 in experimental; next one to unstable?

[Iain Lane <laney@ubuntu.com>]

Hiya,

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:02:08PM -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
> Hi Joachim.
>
> Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Ter Fev 09 07:28:50 -0200 2010:
> (...)
> > While we are at it: Should we remove haddock, hscolour etc. from the
> > library build dependencies, and make them a dependency of
> > haskell-devscripts?
>
> I think it's a good idea.  Maybe we should do the same with debhelper, cdbs and
> ghc6-* too?
>
> Greetings.

If this is to become part of a contract between haskell-devscripts and 
depending packages, I think it ought to be written down in Haskell 
policy. Relying on indirect deps is often a bad idea without a guarantee 
that they will be maintained.

Iain

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