Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Ketil Malde
Christopher Lane Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a debianized cabal-install would be the biggest win in my book. If there were an unofficial debianized mirror of hackage, I probably wouldn't use it anyway. I might. I generally want to use newer versions of development stuff (i.e.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Don Stewart
magnus: 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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Seth Gordon
Ketil Malde wrote: Christopher Lane Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a debianized cabal-install would be the biggest win in my book. If there were an unofficial debianized mirror of hackage, I probably wouldn't use it anyway. I might. I would. (I run Ubuntu at home, Debian on my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Joachim Breitner
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Don Stewart
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread Kari Pahula
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote: - the cdbs extension for supporting haskell (the one posted on debian-haskell mailing list a while ago) I keep the newest version of that at http://people.debian.org/~kaol/repos/hlibrary/ One thing that it doesn't do yet is to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread Don Stewart
kaol: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote: - the cdbs extension for supporting haskell (the one posted on debian-haskell mailing list a while ago) I keep the newest version of that at http://people.debian.org/~kaol/repos/hlibrary/ One thing that it doesn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:10:08 +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:28:36PM -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote: - the cdbs extension for supporting haskell (the one posted on debian-haskell mailing list a while ago) I keep the newest version of that at

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread Clifford Beshers
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Don Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Can the Debian/Haskell interest parties say something about who's doing what in this area? Is there hope for a concrete effort to import large numbers of hackage apps and tools into Debian? I made a stab at it, but ran

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread Christopher Lane Hinson
Can the Debian/Haskell interest parties say something about who's doing what in this area? Is there hope for a concrete effort to import large numbers of hackage apps and tools into Debian? -- Don I'm not a DD, but I think uploading ~500 hackage packages to debian would be a bit of a no-no.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread David Bremner
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread David Bremner
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

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-21 Thread David Bremner
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

[Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-19 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:06:23 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: Any reason the manual steps here aren't automated? There's not much benefit from automating them (although if someone did so, with a nice way to edit the description etc, then it would be handy). The vast majority of the time in