Hi Joachim, Happy New Year and thanks for your mail. Sorry for my slow reply: I was busy rebuilding Fedora packages for haskell-platform-2011.4...
> judging from > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=ghc.git;a=summary > you seem to be the maintianer of the GHC package in Fedora. And > judging > from http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=ghc.git;a=tree we are > sharing a few patches. Im wondering if we can improve our > collaboration? Yes - probably mostly I have "stolen" your patches. :-) > You can find our patches against the ghc package in > http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/ghc/patches/ > and for the experimental package (7.4.1-rc1) in > http://anonscm.debian.org/darcs/pkg-haskell/experimental/ghc/patches/ > > Especially the system-libffi-patch is used by both of us, and is > always a pain to port to new versions. We could try to generalize it so that > it can go into upstream proper and be enabled by a configure flag. > Anybody (you, or someone from the Debian Haskell Group) interested in this > task? Right - perhaps I can take a stab at it one day if noone else has time. Yes this patch is probably the main maintenance burden currently for ghc so it would definitely be good to upstream - perhaps it needs a switch in configure though or Linux should just use system libffi anyway. (Though earlier when I proposed the latter to SimonM, he was not too keen.) > Judging from the contents of the patch > ghc-gen_contents_index-type-level.patch you want to avoid the large > runtime of gen_contents_index when type-level is installed. I had > send a > patch upstream that improves on that, maybe you can drop the patch > when > packaging ghc 7.4.1: > https://github.com/ghc/haddock/commit/b50695a86358fd02b9a0ececbc107bf5274d5f95 I see thanks. Ok I will definitely consider that. So with that you don't see any lag with installing haddock documentation any more, or probably debian spawns a subprocess for re-indexing anyway? > The 7.4.1-rc1 release had build failures on almost every architecture > besides i386/amd64. I guess some of these will affect you as well, so > any help is appreciated: > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5733 > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5735 > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5732 > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5734 Ok, I will try to do a testbuild of rc1 for Fedora finally soon too. > BTW, if you are curious, you are welcome to subscribe to > [email protected] at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/. Also, if you want to contact > us, that is the right address, even if you are not subscribed. Yes thanks. Likewise for our Fedora haskell-devel list though probably it is currently a bit too noisy with bugzilla mail traffic. Actually I was wondering if it would make sense for us to setup a Haskell distro mailing-list for people involved/interesting in packaging haskell for Linux to communicate about issues? Perhaps even packaging for all platforms? What do you think? Thanks for reaching out and also I would like to say thanks and my respect for the great work Debian has done and continues to do on Haskell packaging. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2b03b87d-0710-467e-9287-26de0816e...@zmail14.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com
