debian-haskell September 2005

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Re: Bug#328663: very old package, should this be removed?
by Michael Weber 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

* Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc(a)marcbrockschmidt.de> [2005-09-16T18:30+0200]: > During the Debian QA meeting hold during Sept. 09th till 11th, we > decided that looking at packages that haven't been uploaded for a very > long time could cover up some QA problems. > > I've done this now and your package showed up on the list. I propose > to remove it. > There are almost no users and the package is also quite out of date wrt > Debian's policies. There is also a new upstream version, but neither > have you packaged it, nor has someone requested it in the BTS. If the debian-haskell team (CC'd) has nothing against it, I agree with the removal of package ctklight. Otherwise, any volunteers for taking it over? Cheers, Michael

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nhc98 and hat
by Ian Lynagh 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi all, nhc98 ===== With the current toolchain, nhc98 is no longer building on mips (or mipsel, I assume), which greatly reduces the value of having it over just ghc6 in my eyes as it probably won't give us any extra arches come 6.4.1. Also, people packaging libraries don't seem to have been interested in adding support for it; the only packages build-depending on it are: cpphs, drift, haskell-utils, hat, hmake and I can't see this improving while it doesn't have cabal support and can't handle contemporary Haskell. The popcon figures[0][1] show that it is closer to ghc5, due for removal, than to ghc6/hugs. Based on what I've been told/seen, things aren't likely to be fixed terribly soon, so I propose dropping it for now. When it (or jhc, or another) looks like being a viable alternative implementation we can look at (re)packaging it. So, before I file a bug for its removal, is there anyone interested in taking over maintenance? hat === Also, the above pretty much all applies to hat too (except the compilation problems). As I've never really used it (mainly due to it not handling contemporary Haskell) I think I'd like to let it go too. Again, is anyone interested in taking over maintenance? (the package has a fair bit of hackery to cope with a single set of tools but libraries for each implementation. I can't remember if this is merged upstream in the latest version; at any rate, if ghc5 and nhc98 go it could be dropped for the time being if forward-porting it is difficult). I'm afraid I don't have the time to offer to sponsor uploads. Thanks Ian [0] http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=ghc6+ghc5+… [1] http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=ghc6+ghc5+…

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ghc5 removal
by Ian Lynagh 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hi all, ghc5 is no longer building with the current Haskell tools, and hasn't with current gcc for some time. I don't think it provides enough benefit for the amount of work keeping it working will take, so I'd like to drop it. Before I file a request for removal, is there anyone who feels differently and would like to adopt it? c2hs will also need to be removed or updated (I think there was someone looking at that recently, but I can't remember who?). Thanks Ian

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c2hs package
by Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello, I've package c2hs 0.13.6 (again). If anyone can be a sponsor, please take a look at http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~marcot/c2hs/ . About the error reported by John Goerzen <jgoerzen(a)complete.org> in this list, I could not reproduce it. This text-1.0 package that you've installed exports a module with the same name as ctk. I don't know what this package is, but it seems that c2hs cannot be built with it installed. Have you tried building it from the source on the same machine you got that error? Thanks. -- Abraços, marcot mailto:marcot@minaslivre.org jabber:marcott@jabber.org UIN:50599075 MSN:marcot@ufmg.br Telefone:33346720 Celular:91844179 Endereço:Rua Paula Cândido 257/201 Gutierrez 30430-260 Belo Horizonte-MG Brasil "Trabalhe menos e mais devagar."

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