Hello,
On Thu, Sep 28 2017, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> I write Haskell code, and would on occasion like to package a program
> written in Haskell for Debian. But I'm not a Haskell ecosystem
> maintainer, or anything like that. One thing that would make my life
> easier would be a way to pass the stuff from the build-depends: of a
> .cabal file and translate them into Debian libghc-xxx-dev packages.
> I.e., something that takes a cabal package name and translates it into
> a list of corresponding debian library development packages.
>
> Something on top of that which parses a .cabal file and generates that
> list and slaps it into a ${misc:depends} in debian/control would be
> even more fantastic!
You might want to look at cabal-debian(1); I think it can do executables
as well as libraries.
For a fairly minimal d/rules, d/control etc. you might want to look at
my package stylish-haskell.
--
Sean Whitton
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