Hi Sven, Am Montag, den 07.07.2014, 15:20 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:57:44 +0200 (CEST) > Thorsten Alteholz <alteholz@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > setlocale is a dependency of the gettext bindings of Haskell, so I’d > > > like to hear you your advice on this. How do we proceed? Can’t we rely > > > on the (obvious) intention of the original author? > > > > I am afraid you need to find another source for this package. As long as > > there is no other license, we may not distribute it. > > We could still make our own setlocale package. If we choose to do so, I > could do it. The setlocale binding isn't rocket science, so I think it > won't make much more work than maintaining the original setlocale. great, please do. And when you have done this (assuming you provide the same API), please consider taking over the package upstream as well, as Lukas clearly isn’t available any more. To do so, simply explain the situation to admin@hackage.haskell.org, telling them your hackage account name. Thanks, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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