Hi, Am Montag, den 15.07.2013, 12:27 -0300 schrieb Raúl Benencia: > > > To begin with, I would like to package the software "misfortune", as > > > requested in the wiki TODO page[1]. It seems pretty easy to do and > > > it'll give me valuable experience. > > > > I’m not sure if misfortune is really pretty easy, as it has some hairy > > licensing issues, with all those quotes from dubious sources. Also, I am > > not fully convinced that it is a package that is very useful in Debian’s > > context. But of course if you disagree, don’t let me hold you back! > > I think the only advantage it has over the fortune-mod package is that it > can be used pretty easily as a library. Anyway, I think it doesn't have any > reverse dependency in Hackage, so that feature isn't important right now. > > Yesterday I've started the packaging and found out that some of misfortune > dependencies aren't in Debian. Specifically, random-fu, which also have the > non-packaged dependency gamma. gamma, in turn, depends on > continued-fractions, which also isn't packaged > > To my surprise, all those package are in the TOD^W^W^W^Wwere in the TODO > until a few ours ago ;-). Well, I was going to offer myself to package > them, but now that I've read the updated TODO package list I think I will > move on to other task. lambdabot depends on misfortunate, and when we upgraded lambdabot, we added all new dependencies to the TODO list. Later we decided to strip lambdabot down a bit, but I forgot to update the TODO list until you mentioned it. > > The TODO page is slightly out of date, some of the packages are in NEW > > right now. To be precise: All lambdabot dependencies on the page have > > been packaged or patched out of lambdabot. I’ll remove them from the > > list. > > > > With the other packages I am also not so sure any more. fay, for > > example, is interesting, but fast moving and there are promising > > competitors (e.g. haste), we should wait for things to settle. > > Well, no problem. There's no need for me to start a new package. Maybe I > can help with the outdated packages that are already packaged. Well, package anything that you think is missing and suitable, even if its not on the TODO :-) Also, another useful thing is to go through the list of bugs against our packages and see which ones still apply: http://bugs.debian.org/pkg-haskell-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org 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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