John Goerzen wrote: > Today, I am noticing: > > * we have GHC 6.10.3, but not the version of time that most people use > with GHC 6.10.3. I maintain my Haskell packages on a Debian > system. I have to upload different code to Hackage because Debian > is so out of date -- even in *SID*.
Agreed. > * we have no apparent effort to provide a haskell-platform metapackage > at all. This is a terrible thing that will bite us over and over > again, I fear. Personally I think we need to fix a whole bunch of other stuff before we can even think about haskell-platform. > * Important bits of our Haskell infrastructure are unmaintained. > Arjan, who doesn't have time to maintain Haskell packages anymore, > is still the maintainer of record for haskell-devscripts, http, > hsql, regex, haskelldb, haxml, helium. Two weeks ago I sent Arjan Oosting an email offering to help with or take over HaXml. I not yet received a response. I will ping him again. I actually have a package for haXMl 1.19.7 ready to roll, either for Arjan to upload or for one one my existing sponsors to upload as soon as Arjan releases maintainership. Obviously I can't move any faster that the recommended process for adopting packages in the Debian Reference manual: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#adopting If Arjan could simply spend the time to officilly orphan his packages, we can get this fixed quickly. For Arjan's other packages, I would be more than happy to adopt regex and http. I believe other people are already hacking on haskell-devscripts (Marco and Joachim?). > We have made some progress on other things, such as standardized > debian/ directories, but we are moving at a glacial pace on a lot of > the rest of this. Most of it is out of anyone's hands but Kari to > fix, since he's the maintainer of ghc and most of the core > infrastructure that Arjan isn't. The main problem at the moment is haskell-parsec2 being stuck in the Debian NEW queue which is holding up haskell-network and hence a bunch of other stuff. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
