Re: packaging xcffib
Hi Joachim,
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:22:39PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 17.08.2014, 07:45 -0500 schrieb Tycho Andersen:
> > I've uploaded a new version of xcffib to hackage that doesn't depend
> > on Glob or text-format-simple. That said, it won't currently cabal
> > install because the release of xcb-types on hackage is out of date.
> > I've asked the maintainer for a release [1], though.
>
> ok. Can we wait for that to happen or would that be too annoying?
That would be just fine. I can reply to this thread when a tagged
release has been uploaded to hackage.
> > Also, I'm not entirely sure it is useful to package the xcffib binary
> > itself. Or rather, it may be useful, but then xcffibgen and xcffib
> > will need to be upgraded in lock step, so it probably makes sense to
> > have one package. xcffib is a python library for interacting with X
> > through xcb, which is generated from the xcb xml files. So the output
> > of xcffibgen is really what users are interested in. So, I'm happy to
> > package xcffib itself since it is a little weird, but if you guys
> > could package the dependencies that would be awesome :)
>
> We’ll do that.
Great, thanks!
> So xcffibgen will be packaged by you, as a binary-only package (i.e. no
> libghc-xcffib-dev, right)?
Right, exactly. I just pushed a draft of the debian directory if
you're curious (I'm new to packaging, so there may be other errors
besides any haskell specific ones :):
https://github.com/tych0/xcffib/tree/debian-draft
Thanks,
Tycho
> Greetings,
> Joachim
>
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