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Re: packaging xcffib



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 install because the release of xcb-types on hackage is out of date.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? 

> 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.

So xcffibgen will be packaged by you, as a binary-only package (i.e. no
libghc-xcffib-dev, right)?

Greetings,
Joachim


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