Re: Mapping dependencies to lowercase in cabal-debian

[David Fox <dsf@seereason.com>]

I have applied this patch and uploaded cabal-debian-4.15.2 to hackage.  It is worth noting that it would be better if I modified the BinPkgName and SrcPkgName types in the debian package so they prohibited creation of values containing upper case.  Also, there is a more sophisticated mechanism for mapping cabal names to debian names.  It allows you to do things like map versions of QuickCheck < 2 to libghc-quickcheck2-dev, others to libghc-quickcheck-dev.  Unfortunately, the library is not (yet) 100% consistent in its treatment of library names because of its long seven year history.

-david

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:39 AM, David Fox <dsf@seereason.com> wrote:

Thanks, I will look into this.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de> wrote:

Dear maintainer,

We recently dealt with a bug in you package, cabal-debian, about
dependencies not being mapped to lowercase before being added to the
debianization. This is a bug, since debian package-names are always
lowercase.
The original bugreport can be seen here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756327

However, we created a patch, which fixes this problem. We thought you
may want to include the patch in your package. For that reason I'm
sending it to you.

Regards
Sven
pp. Debian Haskell Group