Hi, I've been using Debian recently for Haskell development and have been mostly happy with it. But sometimes I feel like I'm navigating around holes in the packages available in Debian. I've particularly missed having these packages available, as well as others I've forgotten: * uuid (used /usr/bin/uuid) * SHA (used /usr/bin/sha1sum) * strict (rolled my own hGetContentsStrict with seq..) * test-framework (ended up using testpack instead but would have like the option to try both, as I have both quickcheck and hunit tests) (speaking of QuickCheck, I still don't understand why debian lacks a /usr/bin/quickcheck program that I see various documentation using) I'm not the right person to package these -- I don't even understand cabal yet. Are there any plans for a general push to get all the general-purpose and good stuff in Hackage packaged? There is less of it than CPAN after all, so it must be doable. :) -- see shy jo
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