Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+debian@mega-nerd.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> What *is* the content of the file?  In other words, more fundamentally,
> why is it there and what does it do?

Its a haskell interface definition file. When ghc6 compiles the Haskell
source code file License.hs it generates an object file and the itnerface
file License.hi. In the package I'm working on License.hs specifies the
license of a Hackage/Cabal package. See:

    http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Cabal/1.4.0.1/doc/html/Distribution-License.html

As a haskell hacker, I thought you may have recognised that :-).

Cheers,
Erik
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