Re: Potential new debian package in haskell

[Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>]

Pete Ryland <pdr@pdr.cx> writes:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On Sunday 22 September 2024, Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> wrote:
>
>     I would like to propose https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad as a
>     Debian
>     package, it's built with Haskell.  This is advanced keyboard
>     configuration software.
>    
>     Any suggestions about this potential package, or process from
>     here?
>
>
> This looks very interesting.  It should be fairly straightforward to
> package since all the dependencies already exist in Debian.  It would
> just need a man page to be written and probably some default config
> and scripting to get it working directly out of the box.
>
> I would be happy to help as I've just been learning this myself
> recently anyway.

It sounds like you have the knowledge.  are you able to compile this
package?  It seems to me the command stack downloads its own haskell?

>
> The one thing to check is that this functionality is not already
> present in another package in Debian as this would make it unlikely
> to get in.

This kind of functionality doesn't appear in
https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
It is fairly unique, I only know of one other package, kanata, that
provides this in software, and it is not in debian.
How else can you check?

>
> Kind regards, 
> Pete