fw: > * Don Stewart: > > > fw: > >> * John Goerzen: > >> > >> > What are the major challenges towards being able to automatically > >> > convert Hackage/Cabal packages into Debian source packages? > >> > >> Someone needs to maintain *all* packages in stable. The upload to > >> unstable and fixing integration issues is only part of the work. > > > > This can be done almost entirely automatically, though, can't it? > > Depends. Security support for a branch which is not active upstream > anymore is usually tricky and can require quite a lot of work in > specific instances. > > (And not all security issues are due to side effects, so Haskell isn't > immune. 8-)
Have there been security issues in Haskell packages in the past? -- Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
