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Re: Bug#758644: ITP: haskell-icalendar -- Haskell Data definitions, parsing and printing of the iCalendar format (RFC5545).



Hi Joachim,

Thanks for the email.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 08:33:25AM -0700, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 19.08.2014, 17:16 +0200 schrieb Jelmer Vernooij:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>
> > 
> > * Package name    : haskell-icalendar
> >   Version         : 0.4.0.1
> >   Upstream Author : Christian Rødli Amble
> > * URL             : http://github.com/tingtun/iCalendar
> > * License         : BSD3
> >   Programming Lang: Haskell
> >   Description     : icalendar parser
> > 
> > Haskell data definitions, parsing and printing of the iCalendar format
> > (RFC5545).
> currently, all Haskell libraries in Debian are maintained by the Debian
> Haskell Group, and I don’t see a reason to change that. So I suggest you
> either join us (see http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell) or we simply package
> this library for you, if you need it as a dependency for something.
I'm happy to maintain it as part of the Haskell packaging team. I've
got experience as a Haskell programmer and as a Debian developer, but
have never done any Haskell packaging.

> What exactly do you need this package for? Is it mature for Debian? It
> says Stability experimental, but also hasn’t seen much actual
> development recently (but at least updates to the metadata, which is
> good).
I've used it for a couple of personal projects, and have found it to
work quite well. I've also got a couple of local patches that I am
hoping to submit upstream - mostly tests.

Jelmer

-- 
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org>
Debian Developer                           https://jelmer.uk/

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