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Re: Classification of Haskell source packages



Hi,


Am Montag, den 29.12.2014, 16:03 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> For Haskell _libraries_ I agree.  But not for anything Haskell-based.
> 
> Package section is labelled "Haskell programming language and libraries" 
> - implementations of Haskell and libraries to extend it belong there.
> 
> Packages like gitit, hledger and pandoc-citeproc do not belong in 
> haskell section.  Probably same (judging from their descriptions) for 
> arbtt, hbro, hopenpgp-tools, hsbrainfuck, mighttpd2, shelltestrunner, 
> taffybar, unlambda, x509-util.
> 
> Package categories are about purpose, not implementation style.  Haskell 
> is not the only package section with plenty of wrongly categorized 
> packages...

I absolutely agree!

Sounds like some low-hanging fruit for our new contributors: Change the
section and make your way into the changelogs :-)

Greetings,
Joachim

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