Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> writes: >>> B) Upload a libghc6-platform-dev package to Debian, patched to refer >>> to „our“ Version numbers. Makes it easy for people to build stuff >>> against it, but things might break when „our“ Versions are not fully >>> compatible with the one promised by the official platform. >> >> Is it not a good idea to leave the version numbers unspecified in the >> packages that doesn't have the same version in Debian and in the >> platform? What's the advantage of restricting to the available >> version in Debian? > > I agree. By now, I’m of the opinion that a simple meta-debian-package, > without any ghc-pkg interaction, that pulls in the right -dev and > binary packages without any versioning should be fine.
This would also obviously avoid having to make a new (sourceful) upload of haskell-package every time one of its dependencies got upgraded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
