At Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:11:49 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > 1) A cabal-to-deb command that will convert a Hackage download into a > Debian source package, figuring out build-deps from .cabal. I think > there has been some work on this, but nothing we can rely upon.
The cabal-debian executable from this library: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/debian Does exactly that. Why can't we rely upon it? At present, the only significant shortcoming is that it requires some minor patches to haskell-devscripts and requires hlibrary.mk to be installed system-wide (via a .deb). The only reason this is a shortcoming is because those patches are not in Debian and Ubuntu already, so cabal-debian does not 'just work' out of the box. The patches do not break backwards compatibility or anything funny like that. In fact, they are mostly just bug fixes and new features. ------------------- cabal-debian works! ------------------- It has been tested on dozens of libraries from hackage. We have built and installed the generated packages on lenny, sid, hardy, and intrepid. ---------------------------------- cabal-debian is written in Haskell ---------------------------------- No scary perl or python here! Only lovely Haskell! ------------------------------ cabal-debian is not a hack job ------------------------------ cabal-debian uses the Cabal library and haskell-debian library for its parsing and generation needs, not regexs and string concatenation. It should be robust and easy to maintain and modify. ---------------------------------------------- cabal-debian uses existing standards and tools ---------------------------------------------- cabal-debian generates source packages that use haskell-devscripts and hlibrary.mk. It attempts to do things 'by the book'. --------------------------------------------------------- using cabal-debian is better than not using cabal-debian! --------------------------------------------------------- When using cabal-debian and a patched haskell-devscripts/hlibrary.mk you get cool features like: 1. ${depends:Haskell} actually works 2. automatic notification if you built against haskell libraries that are not listed as build-depends ----------------------------------- cabal-debian is actively maintained ----------------------------------- We (at SeeReason) use cabal-debian all the time. It is a integral part of our development environment, so we are not likely to let it fall by the wayside anytime soon. ----------------------------------------- cabal-debian developers want you to help! ----------------------------------------- Want to help out with cabal-debian? No problem! The authors would be most pleased to accept contributions and we are easy to contact. Get the latest source via: darcs get http://src.seereason.com/ghc610/haskell-debian-3/ darcs get http://src.seereason.com/ghc610/quilt/haskell-devscripts-quilt/ darcs get http://src.seereason.com/ghc610/haskell-cdbs/ Send us an email, partn...@seereason.com. We can also be contacted via this mailing list, IRC, an XMMP/Jabber chatroom, skype, and more! I see absolutely no reason why this tool can not be used. There are a few trivial cosmetic changes that need to be made due to recent decisions regarding the Haskell Debian policy. For example, naming things haskell-package-doc instead of libghc6-package-doc, and setting the arch for -doc packages to 'any' instead of 'all'. But, I don't see any real technical issues -- the tool seems like exactly what people want. All that needs to be done is: 1. get people excited about cabal-debian (because it rocks) 2. get the patches to haskell-devscripts/hlibrary.mk merged 3. make minor tweaks to cabal-debian to bring it in alignment with the current Haskell Debian policy Steps 2 and 3 should not take more than a few days. There is not much real work there, mostly just waiting around for things to get merged, built or uploaded. Step 1 seems to be the tricky part for some reason. - jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-haskell-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
