nomeata: > 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.
Yes, the key is to find a motivated Debian maintainer who can build a coalition around them. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
