Re: How Can I Help?

2022-03-21 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 06:37pm -05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday, 21 March 2022 00.24.17 CDT Mikolaj Konarski wrote: >> If you'd like to contribute to Debian Haskell for the sake >> of people that can't operate cabal, I'm afraid it's best to get >> through the DD process and co

Re: How Can I Help?

2022-03-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday, 21 March 2022 00.24.17 CDT Mikolaj Konarski wrote: > If you'd like to contribute to Debian Haskell for the sake > of people that can't operate cabal, I'm afraid it's best to get > through the DD process and commit to DD duties. I'm not opposed to becoming a DD. However, my read of the

Re: How Can I Help?

2022-03-21 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Boyd, > until we can get a newer GHC in Sid. :) On a stable base system, you may be able to get 8.10.7 via my https://haskell-backports.debian.net/ For packaging progress, there is also https://hackage.debian.net/ Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: How Can I Help?

2022-03-20 Thread Mikolaj Konarski
Hi Boyd, Thank you for your letter. I'm not a DD, just as you, and I have found that, while I'm extremely grateful to DDs for their job, it's too much to also expect DDs to be prompt and particularly responsive. My advice to you would be to switch to ghcup and cabal (or stack) and take care of al

How Can I Help?

2022-03-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm not a DD or anything, but I am interested in making sure we continue to have good Haskell package and tools in Debian, because I install several of them that way. Is there a status page where I can find tasks? Or can someone propose some? I've been on Debian for my personal systems since 2