Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?
Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+debian@mega-nerd.com> writes:
> 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
Yeah, that sounds like a good Lintian exception.
> As a haskell hacker, I thought you may have recognised that :-).
I think you may be confusing me with someone else. :) I've never used
Haskell, I'm afraid. (Mostly just due to lack of time.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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