Packaging Yi
Hello everyone!
I'm now considering to debianize the Yi Editor
(http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yi). I know Yi is still in its
early beta or maybe alpha stage, but already somewhat usable(I've been
giving it a try every half a year or so and found it's steadily
improving), and its concept is too fascinating to ignore ;-)
I'm a DD, but I'm relatively new to Haskell and this will be my first
Haskell-related package, so I appreciate your help(or please let me
know if someone's already working on it or packaging Yi is a bad idea
in the first place ;-). I have a very rough preliminary package, but
I'm not filing ITP yet.
There are several questions, but firstly, I would like to ask about
Haskell package dependency on Debian. I could build the current Yi
0.6.4.0 (with some tweaks for alex 3), but it seems to depend the
following Haskell packages which are not available in Debian sid yet:
cautious-file-1.0
concrete-typerep-0.1
data-accessor-monads-fd-0.2.0.3
derive-2.4.2
dyre-0.8.6
executable-path-0.0.2
fingertree-0.0.1.0
haskell-src-exts-1.10.2
monas-fd-0.2.0.0
pointedlist-0.3.5
rosezipper-0.1
xdg-basedir-0.2.1
Also, if we try to build Yi with Pango, then we need newer gtk2hs
version >=0.13.5 (currently we have 0.13.4 in sid ).
I read most of Haskell pages on Debian Wiki, and from my
understanding, the right way to put them in Debian is joining Alioth
pkg-haskell project. Is this correct? And do I have to package them
by myself? Does anyone working on it?
Best regards,
MH
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Masayuki Hatta
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Surugadai University
mhatta@gnu.org / mhatta@debian.org / mhatta@mhatta.org /
hatta.masayuki@surugadai.ac.jp
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