On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:04:44 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I think it would improve the quality of Haskell in Debian if we are > more focused on packages that are relevant, and regularly clear out > cruft. With cruft, I mean packages that were once dependencies of > something we want to have in Debian, and are no longer, and also > packages that someone used to be interested in and is no longer. > > So I propose to introduce “key packages”: These are those packages that > should be in Debian on their own right – things like pandoc, xmonad, > cabal-debian, etc. Packages become key packages if someone marks them > as such in the package plan. > > Then, the following packages should be in Debian: > * Key packages, > * their dependencies, > * and all packages that were previously in Debian and are also part of > stackage (as I expect that these incur very little extra overhead). > > This implies that we should remove all packages that are neither in > Stackage nor that are (used by) key packages. That seems reasonable. > Quite a list! Do you spot anything that you want to keep? Then mark it > as "key" in the package list (but be prepared that I come to you when > this package needs extra work) and/or make sure it becomes part of > stackage. I will have to mark some packages as key packages, but didn't get to it yet. Regards Sven
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