Hi, Am Dienstag, den 19.04.2011, 06:27 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva: > Excerpts from Erik de Castro Lopo's message of Ter Abr 19 05:17:59 -0300 2011: > (...) > > I currently have a script and some Makefile foo that allows me to specify > > a hackage library and version and it will build a package. Obviously > > the package is not good enough to go straight into Debian, but it does > > a large chunk of the grunt work (although it doesn't figure out dependencies > > yet). I've been thinking of extending and improving this to make it a > > real debian tool for managing packages on Debian. > > Well, there is the debian package[0]. I'm working[1] on it and on a tool to > generate a debian package for the whole hackage archive[2]. It currently is > kind of working, but there are some packages which can't be built, and the > exception for them must be manually included. The code is very experimental, > but if you want to try. > > I even created an alioth project for hosting the built packages. The initial > version builds the whole hackage hackage archive. My goal is to have another > version that checks for hackage updates and try to build them as they're > uploaded. great to hear about your progress, this will be a great help in pushing Debian as the best platform to do Haskell development on... Nevertheless I don’t expected that these packages would be allowed into the main archive, nor that they could replace having packages in the main archive, so a multi-cabal-source-package might nevertheless be required eventually. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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