Hey, On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:38:49AM -0200, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
Hallo Joachim. Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Qua Fev 17 11:08:54 -0200 2010: (...)while creating a patch against ghc6 to run dh_haskell_provides I notice that ghc6-6.12 ships utf8-string and time, which we currently also ship as individual packages:(...)The time is up-to-date WRT hackage, utf8-string is slightly behind(...)Is there a point in maintaining individual packages for these, or should we just drop them, as it is the case for Cabal etc.?I think we should drop it unless we have a package that depends on the newer version of utf8-string. I've done a research about it: $ for i in `grep-dctrl -FDepends -sPackage libghc6-utf8-string-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/localhost\:9999_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages | sed 's/Package: libghc6-\(.*\)-dev/\1/; /Package/d'`; do echo ---$i; GET http://hackage.haskell.org/package/$i | grep -A 1 utf8-string || echo $i >> /tmp/error; done | less Then I searched by hand the pacakges in /tmp/error. The only problem I've found is with the newer version of haskeline, which is not in Debian yet. If we need it, we'll need a separate package of utf8-string. As it's only a possibility, I'd say we should drop them, and reintroduce then if it's the case latter. Greetings.
Thanks for the analysis.I think that if there's a reasonable chance we will need to reintroduce then we shouldn't RM. This probably is the case for utf8-string, but maybe not so for time. It's not *that* much effort to maintain the packages separately, but NEWing etc is a bit of a hassle if avoidable.
Iain
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