Hi. On 26/07/2011 01:10, Joachim Breitner wrote: > It seems to me that this is not necessary restricted to data packages > shipped with the current source, but rather any dependency that should > be added to any program using the code. This could be a binary that the > program calls, a service such as a dbus or anything else. Hence maybe > you want to rename DEB_GHC_DATA_PACKAGES to DEB_GHC_EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES > or DEB_GHC_RUNTIME_DEPS and also the files created by the patches. Right, done (the EXTRA variant). > (I only skimmed the patches though, it is too late already). > >> Unfortunately haskell-devscripts code is sometimes a bit complicated. I >> tried to do as least changes as possible and keep the same style of the >> existing code. > > I would not mind a rewrite of haskell-devscripts, mabye in something > slightly safer and more reliable than bash (thinking perl here, to avoid > circular dependencies with ghc). But I won’t have the time any time > soon. I don't think that would require huge changes, just having a more regular execution flow in the dh_haskell_* scripts and some refactorizations in hlibrary.mk. For me shell scripts are good enough (moreover, I don't know Perl). Maybe I'll work on this later during DebConf. Joachim, you're at Debconf, right? How it happened that we haven't met yet so far? :-P Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it> Pisa, Italy Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani Jabber: g.mascellani@jabber.org / giovanni@elabor.homelinux.org
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