Hey Joachim, On Sun, Dec 21 2014, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m currently rebuilding everything with GHC-7.8; once I can build a > sizeable set of the packages here I’ll upload it to experimental. I’m > currently at 450 packages... > > Again, packages that are not in Darcs are the cause of serious slow-down > in such mass-managing of files, so I need some help here. > > Just for my own curiosity. Do you mean packages which have not yet been uploaded to the debian darcs repos? e.g. new dependencies? > @Jonas: Could you prepare the packaging of pandoc-1.13.1? Then I can > locally build that and continue working on those that require pandoc. > > > Also, there are quite a few new packages: > > DRBG, auto-update, charsetdetect-ae, cipher-aes128, dynamic-state, > errorcall-eq-instance, gtksourceview3, haddock-api, haddock-library, > network-uri, nonce, oo-prototypes, prettyclass, regex-tdfa-text, > th-expand-syns, th-reify-many, vado, vcsgui, vcswrapper, webkitgtk3, > word-trie, yi-language, yi-rope, ghcjs-dom, ghcjs-codemirror, > webkitgtk3-javascriptcore, jsaddle > Noted. I have some time over the holiday and I can knock a few of these in the next several days. Thanks for the heads up. > I need help with these. If you want to help out, just pick one and > package them as usual. You do not have to upload them, just put them in > Darcs and tell me about them. If you are ready, make sure you target > "experimental" and depend on haskell-devscripts (>= 0.9) > > In particular, a number of these new dependencies are for leksah. Leksah > is a large package that repeatedly causes lots of work to me, but I > don’t use it. So unless someone steps up to dedicatedly maintain leksah > and the packages it pulls in, I’m planning to remove leksah. So if you > want that to happen, please start working on its new dependencies. > > There are also a number of packages that seem to be unmaintained that > stopped working with 7.8. Some of them are probably easy to patch, but I > still plan to remove them. If you are worried that I’d remove something > that you want, please review the package plan and create patches. > This brings up a question I have. What is the best way for me to be notified when a new package I help maintain is available? I know there is distro-watch but I'm not certain how everyone else is using it. I usually just watch the hackage rss feed and hope I don't miss anything. -- Christopher Reichert irc: creichert gpg: C81D 18C8 862A 3618 1376 FFA5 6BFC A992 9955 929B
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