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



Hi,


Am Mittwoch, den 20.08.2014, 18:49 +0200 schrieb Jelmer Vernooij:
> 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.

great! We can always need more hands. Are you going to be at DebConf?

> > 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.

Do you think it’s worth having in Debian? I.e. will there people wanting
to use it that rely primarily on Debian packaging (in contrast to using
cabal-install anyways)?

Greetings,
Joachim


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