Dear Jens, judging from http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=ghc.git;a=summary you seem to be the maintianer of the GHC package in Fedora. And judging from http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=ghc.git;a=tree we are sharing a few patches. Im wondering if we can improve our collaboration? You can find our patches against the ghc package in http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/ghc/patches/ and for the experimental package (7.4.2-rc1) in http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/experimental/ghc/patches/ Especially the system-libffi-patch is used by both of us, and is always a pain to port to new versions. We could try to generalize it so that it can go into upstream proper and be enabled by a configure flag. Anybody (you, or someone from the Debian Haskell Group) interested in this task? Judging from the contents of the patch ghc-gen_contents_index-type-level.patch you want to avoid the large runtime of gen_contents_index when type-level is installed. I had send a patch upstream that improves on that, maybe you can drop the patch when packaging ghc 7.4.1: https://github.com/ghc/haddock/commit/b50695a86358fd02b9a0ececbc107bf5274d5f95 The 7.4.1-rc1 release had build failures on almost every architecture besides i386/amd64. I guess some of these will affect you as well, so any help is appreciated: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5733 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5735 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5732 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5734 BTW, if you are curious, you are welcome to subscribe to debian-haskell@lists.debian.org at http://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/. Also, if you want to contact us, that is the right address, even if you are not subscribed. 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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