Hi, I think the Haskell Group can take it over. But some questions: Is the library really needed in Debian (i.e. are there other libraries or programs using it)? How active is BNFC maintained by upstream? How much maintenance work was required for bnfc (besides the pure packaging)? Greetings, Joachim Am Dienstag, den 07.05.2013, 22:04 +0300 schrieb Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: > Control: retitle -1 O: bnfc -- Compiler front-end generator based on Labelled BNF > Control: affects -1 bnfc > > With the upstream release of version 2.5.0, bnfc now ships a library in > addition to the binary. This increases the packaging complexity enough that I > am not comfortable continuing as maintainer. If someone wants to take over, > the package should probably be maintained within the Debian Haskell Group. > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 07:14:01AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: normal > > > > I request an adopter for the bnfc package. > > > > The package description is: > > The BNF Converter is a compiler construction tool that generates a > > compiler front-end and a readable syntax description document from a > > Labelled BNF grammar. It was originally written to generate Haskell, > > but it can now also be used for generating Java, C++, and C. > > . > > To process Haskell output, you need the Glorious Glasgow Haskell > > Compiler (virtual package ghc), the Happy parser generator (package > > happy) and the Alex scanner generator (package alex). > > . > > To process Java output, you need a Java compiler and virtual machine, > > the CUP parser generator (package cup) and the JLex scanner generator > > (package jlex). > > . > > To process C or C++ output, you need a C or C++ compiler, > > respectively, the Bison parser generator (package bison) and the flex > > scanner generator (package flex). > > . > > To process the generated documents, you need LaTeX (packages > > tetex-base, tetex-bin, etc.). > > > > > -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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