Hi, let me try to mediate a bit here. Erik is making observations that he made. I do not read his mails accusative or even demanding. I think this is perfectly valid. Iain, please do not let your motivation down by this. Rather, try to think it through from Eirk’s point of view and see if there maybe is a solution that he is not aware of. In general it is true that no operation system release fulfills alls requirements. Haskell developement is currently quite fast, too fast for either Ubuntus or Debians releases. I also have problems running some Haskell code (darcswatch in particular) on a Debian stable system. But since at least one of the reasons for packaging Haskell stuff in Debian is to be able to build binaries from it (darcs et. al.), this is still a useful situation. What package (versions) are exactly lacking in an Ubuntu release, and for what use case? Students probably only need a few updated libraries. Such need could be served by setting up a PPA repository, assuming there would be volunteers to maintain them, right? (I’m not saying that it is Iain tasks to set that up or anything like that!) I hope we can move this discussion back onto a constructive path before people are too upset. Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part