On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:30:50AM +0100, Iain Lane wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:07:21AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >> Iain Lane wrote: >> >>> I am disappinted to see this come up on debian-haskell, where I'd expect >>> people to understand the difference between Ubuntu releases and the >>> various Debian ones. >> >> <snip> >> >>> Squeeze (testing) and sid are both rolling releases. Ubuntu releases are >>> not. >> >> [...] >> >> I'm trying not to rag on Ubuntu, but Ubuntu defenders also need to >> realise that for some people Ubuntu is not a good fit and they >> shouldn't be too defensive about it. > > OK. I won't respond any further after this email if you think I am being > too defensive. > > * Would you have us remove Haskell from Debian stable and Ubuntu > stable releases? > * Why is Haskell in a privileged/special position here when compared > to other languages? How is this the fault of the distribution? What > should we do about it? > IMHO this problem exists when you try to bring any library of packages into a distribution. See also: + CPAN + CTAN + Python Cheeseshop + Ruby Gems? + I'm sure there are more. -- Paul Bone Software Developer http://www.bone.id.au
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