Re: Policy rewrite
Am 05.11.2010 15:45, schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Hi,
>
> I started to write down what I think should be in a revised Haskell
> policy. The old one was outdated in that it mentioned multiple compilers
> and was written before the advent of triggers and ABI-based hashes.
>
> I wrote a chapter about the binary package. You can read it here
> http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/policy/haskell-policy.html/
> and the source is, well, there :-)
>
> Is it useful so far? Do we need a written-down policy for source
> packages, or is the template directory enough documentation for that?
>
> Feel free to clarify, extend, error-correct or rewrite the policy :-)
In
http://darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell/policy/haskell-policy.html/ch-libs-bin.html#s-libs-bin-abi-names
"The ABI hash can be obtained using ghc-pkg field pkg id | cut -d- -f3."
does not work for cabal package names containing "-" like utf8-string,
wai-extra, etc.
Cheers Christian
>
> Greetings from BelHac,
> Joachim
>
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