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Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva | 3 Oct 15:24

Bug#501031: ITP: haskell-cabal-1.4 -- A framework for packaging Haskell software

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva" <marcot <at> riseup.net>

* Package name    : haskell-cabal-1.4
  Version         : 1.4.0.2
  Upstream Author : Isaac Jones <ijones <at> syntaxpolice.org>, Duncan Coutts <duncan <at> haskell.org>
* URL             : http://www.haskell.org/cabal/
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Haskell
  Description     : A framework for packaging Haskell software

The Haskell Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries: a
framework defining a common interface for authors to more easily build their
Haskell applications in a portable way.

The Haskell Cabal is meant to be a part of a larger infrastructure for
distributing, organizing, and cataloging Haskell libraries and tools.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

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Kari Pahula | 4 Oct 11:10

Re: Bug#501031: ITP: haskell-cabal-1.4 -- A framework for packaging Haskell software

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:25:20AM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
> * Package name    : haskell-cabal-1.4

Whoa, take it a bit slower.  I'm certainly not opposed to having a
newer version of cabal packaged than what's included with ghc6, but
have you fully thought about the implications of having two versions
of it in Debian?

Preferrably there would be only one version of Cabal around in Debian,
even if the versions could coexist benignly.  But that change would
happen only after 6.10.x is packaged, at earliest.  I suspect that
getting ghc's upstream to include a newer version (if needed) might be
the cleaner solution all around...  Generally, Cabal is a central
enough piece of the Haskell ecosystem to warrant rather close
attention from me, in the role of ghc6's maintainer.  I don't know
about how this would affect hugs' side of things.

On a related note, there's still a bunch of old bugs left open on
http://bugs.debian.org/libghc6-cabal-dev from the time when it last
used to be an independent package.  Anyone up for a bit of triaging?

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Debian Bug Tracking System | 8 Oct 00:18

Bug#501031: marked as done (ITP: haskell-cabal-1.4 -- A framework for packaging Haskell software)


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From: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva <marcot <at> riseup.net>
Subject: ITP: haskell-cabal-1.4 -- A framework for packaging Haskell software
Date: 2008-10-03 13:25:20 GMT

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