"yesod" package etc.

[Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:30:04PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Do you have a blog? If so, why don’t you blog about putting yesod in
> Debian. It certainly is something we can show off with a bit. (Although
> I’m curious whether we are actually affected by
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5289 (fixed upstream for 7.4,
> which will be released in due time) and
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5386 (actually
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5435, currently not fixed).)

Unless I learn Yesod, my only real test case is the hledger-web head/tip,
and I haven't had time to try that yet.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:42:33PM +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> Indeed, please do blog about this! I'm personally very happy that yesod
> is finally in Debian (and now I don't have any excuse not to opensource
> a small tool based on yesod :).

I'll try to compose something soon.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:34:48AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I see that you put the yesod binary in a separate package. Is it really
> useful without libghc-yesod-dev? It does not even depend, suggest or
> recommend that, and the description gives the user no hint what this
> package contains.
> 
> Maybe the binary should just be put into libghc-yesod-dev? OTOH, having
> users being able to just apt-get install yesod is also nice.

Unless the Haskell libraries are meant to be multiarch-incompatible,
that would seem like a no-no.  I think the yesod binary package
should definitely express relationships:

Below is from a generated .cabal file; yesod should probably
Recommend those libraries, and either Recommend or Suggest
persistent-postgresql, persistent-mongoDB, mongoDB, and bson.
(This also means we need to package yesod-static and those.)

    build-depends: base         >= 4       && < 5
                 , yesod        >= 0.9     && < 0.10
                 , yesod-core
                 , yesod-auth
                 , yesod-static
                 , blaze-html
                 , yesod-form
                 , mime-mail
                 , clientsession
                 , wai-extra
                 , directory
                 , bytestring
                 , text
                 , persistent
                 , persistent-template
                 , persistent-sqlite >= 0.6 && < 0.7
                                  , persistent-sqlite >= 0.6 && < 0.7
                 , template-haskell
                 , hamlet               >= 0.10     && < 0.11
                 , shakespeare-css      >= 0.10     && < 0.11
                 , shakespeare-js       >= 0.10     && < 0.11
                 , shakespeare-text     >= 0.10     && < 0.11
                 , hjsmin
                 , transformers
                 , data-object
                 , data-object-yaml
                 , warp
                 , blaze-builder
                 , cmdargs