Hi. Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Sex Jan 14 04:43:42 -0200 2011: (...) > Am Freitag, den 14.01.2011, 08:55 +1100 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo: > > > So I suppose this is an RFH message. > > > > /me raises hand > > looks like we are heading towards a team-maintained GHC. Well, it is > worth a try. > > Marco, you have already hacked GHC. Can we count on you with this > maintenance? Yes, sure. I like the idea of a team-maintained GHC. > > > I can still stick around as a > > > comaintainer but it's a bit too much for myself alone. What's the > > > Haskell team's preferred VCS? I prefer darcs myself but I suppose git > > > is good too. > > > > I prefer darcs over git. > > I also think that our current darcs repo scheme (managing only debian/, > using quilt for patches) is quite sufficient. Agreed. > > > I suppose uploading GHC 7 to unstable is fine already since it won't > > > replace ghc6 packages due to renaming it to ghc. Just add a ghc6 > > > pseudopackage after the release. > > > > Sounds reasonable. > > We will probably have to add such packages also for all libraries. To > avoid unnecessary often changes to debian/control, we could again employ > the haskell-dummy source package to generate all the transitional > packages. Also agreed. How should we start? Kaol, do you have anything already done that is not in ghc6-6.12.1-13? If yes, can you put it in a darcs repo in darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell? Is the idea to package ghc 7 somewhat like ghc 6 is packaged right now, or to do major changes at once? I think it's time to review some things in haskell-devscripts too, like the (only =) ) bug in the package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586723 . Also, there is the problem of the size of the package. I thought about splitting the haskell packages from the compiler package, generating, for instance, libghc-base-dev, libghc-containers-dev, libghc-cabal-dev and so on. What do you think? Greetings. (...) -- marcot http://marcot.eti.br/ [Flattr=54498]
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