Re: haskell-debian → Debian

[David Fox <david@seereason.com>]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, David Fox <david@seereason.com> wrote:

Whew, I have to catch up!

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:

Hi again,

Am Montag, den 03.05.2010, 11:25 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:

> Hi David,
>
> Am Samstag, den 01.05.2010, 21:47 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> > I packaged the ghc package “debian” for “Debian” at
> > http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/haskell-debian/.
>
> just a small note: It seems that lookup up field name via Debian.Control
> matches them case-sensitive, but
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html
> specifies them to be case-insensitive. This should probably be fixed.

I had to apply this patch to able to put Relations into Sets and sort
them. You might be interested in it:
http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/haskell-debian/patches/total-Ord-VersionReq.patch

I have pushed patches to http://seereason.com/darcs which address all these issues except the case sensitivity.  I will address that and then see about uploading the newest version to hackage.