Hi, (this is mostly a rant, but hopefully a constructive one)
the Haskell/cabal/hackage eco system is pretty great, as we all know. But there is one huge gaping omission there: Changelogs! I’m involved in packaging Haskell stuff for Debian. Now, the Debian tools we have for that tell me „Hlint has a new version, 1.6.5, which is newer than the one you packages, 1.6.4. Huh, nice. What has changed? Is it relevant for Debian? Is it worth a new upload? There is no easy way to find out: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint lists no changes http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/ lists no changes (and not every package has a homepage) http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/hlint/ contains on Changes file (and not every package has a (linked) darcs repository) http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/darcs/hlint/ also has no web frontend. Which leaves me with the option of getting the darcs repo and looking through "darcs changes". If I know of a repository for the package. So please, package authors, put Changes files in your packages and keep the current for now. And cabal/hackage guys: Llease introduce a standard Changes format for cabal packages so that http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hlint readily lists (or links to) changes. Thanks, 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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