Dear Backports team and Haskellers,
I’d like to make deploying current Haskell based applications on Debian stable easier, and in order to do so, start backporting Haskell to stable-backports and oldstable-backports-sloppy. The question is: How much should we backport. I see a few variants: A Only ghc and cabal-install (with build dependencies). Good enough to get started and use "cabal install" to fetch and build everything else you need from Hackage. B The whole haskell-platform: Allows beginners to run "apt-get install haskell-platform" and get a good starting set. Serious users will still need to use "cabal install" for the rest. C Backport everything: That would involve uploading ~700 packages to backports. With some scripting for updating the changelog, and building it in the right order, I believe the effort is doable. Not much worse than what I have to do after a new version of GHC enters the archive. @Backports team: Do you have an opinion on that? Especially if the setup will handle variant C? Also, is it possible to schedule binNMUs in *-backports in the usual way (not required for the initial upload, but if we later upgrade a few packages)? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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