Re: Packaging a Haskell Program
The problem with the linthian warnings is that lintian does not give out
these on my system. But I will nevertheless resolve them. Although this
will requirere several uploades. Since this is the only way I can see them.
Have you tried running "lintian -pedantic"? You really should be able to
run lintian on your machine. What version of it are you using?
I get the following:
dirk@dirk-desktop:~/wb2pdf-code/src/pack/1$ lintian --pedantic
mediawiki2latex_6.4-1_i386.deb
P: mediawiki2latex: no-homepage-field
dirk@dirk-desktop:~/wb2pdf-code/src/pack/1$ lintian --version
Lintian v2.5.11ubuntu13
so maybe its because I am on Ubuntu
What about the UNRELEASED in the distribution field?
That should be turned to unstable as soon as the package is ready for
uploading to Debian.
Ok
I tried to build your package, but it fails:
Configuring wb2pdf-4.3...
cabal: At least the following dependencies are missing:
hxt-http >=9,
regex-pcre-builtin -any,
url >=2.1,
utility-ht >=0.0.5
I build on this platform
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04
Codename: raring
and Installed the binary to a freshly Installed Debian Testing
Please make sure your package has sufficient build-depends by compiling
it in a chroot (e.g. using pbuilder or sbuild).
I did with debuild. But possibly this is because I built on Ubuntu. I
will do the next try on a freshly installed debian testing.
On the project homepage you write „The program itself is already larger
than ubuntu, so installing ubuntu does actually not cause much
overhead.“ What do you mean by that? The program source is barely 3MB
large.
It has got a lot of dependencies to latex packages and fonts. Pierre
Neidhardt already did some work on reducing them. I will implement his
work soon. But I think installing this package on a freshly installed
system will still take several 100MByte due to the dependencies.
I am really glad that finally people are helping with the inclusion of
my package into debian since I worked the last couple of weeks alone for
that goal and got really frustrated. But now this is getting better.
Yours Dirk
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