Hi, Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 AM, David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:00 -0400 (EDT), > > Christopher Lane Hinson wrote: > >> I'm not a DD, but I think uploading ~500 hackage packages to debian would > >> be a bit of a no-no. Debian packages are expected to have active > >> maintainers both upstream and on the debian side, and to build without a > >> hitch on ten different architectures, or they don't make it into stable > >> and the DD responsible gets whined at. > > > > Fundamentally I think Lane is correct, but it is worth noting that the > > debian perl team maintains 938 CPAN modules. The effort involved is > > not trivial, but the number of consistently active people involved is > > not so huge (maybe 5 core people, and lots of people who are > > interested in one or two packages). > > > > Now, there are only 1217 registered installs of ghc6 on debian, > > compared to 74000+ perl installs (essentially everyone installs perl I > > guess), so it is not clear that the critical mass exists for a debian > > perl style team. > > To add to this I suspect that there are more people involved in the > perl team than there even are DDs with ghc6 installed, but maybe I'm > just being negative. Maybe the time is ripe for a Debian haskell > team? I know the idea has been floated before on the Debian Haskell > list but I don't think it's ever gained any momentum.
I had it floated to the debian-haskell mailing list once, but as you said, there were not much responses. The Debian Perl Group (which was started by me some years ago) is indeed a good example for good library package maintenance. What made it successful was, in my opinion, people with constant devotion (that was not me :-)) and a faible for developing tools for the team. Have a look at http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/qareport.cgi and you see how it was possible to maintain this number of packages with just a few people. Incidentally, a few days ago Ian Lynagh was asking if someone wants to take over his haskell packages, so if there were a group to be formed, it could start with all the base packages. OTOH, this leaves the question open of who will maintain the compiler itself. Of course, this is a totally different thing than maintaining cabalized libraries and so far, no one has stepped up to give it a shot. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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