Hi all,
I am using Debian unstable. I have version 0.8.8+darcs20070523-2 of
libghc6-happs-dev installed. According to the happs website, happs has
a module called HAppS.Protocols.SimpleHTTP. However, ghci cannot find
it.
Prelude> :module HAppS.Protocols.SimpleHTTP
Could not find module `HAppS.Protocols.SimpleHTTP':
locations searched:
HAppS/Protocols/SimpleHTTP.hs
HAppS/Protocols/SimpleHTTP.lhs
Any ideas?
I like to keep on the bleeding edge of what Haskell packages are being
made, and Debian unstable has just not been fast enough for me. Is
Debian unstable supposed to be on the bleeding edge, or should I
really be looking at moving to experimental? If so, I really don't
want to move to experimental. (I only want my Haskell to be bleeding
edge, not my whole computer.)
So what are my options? I can (and have) installed cabal packages from
source into /usr/local, but I'd really rather keep them managed under
apt. Yet there seems to be no documentation on how to do this. There's
no Debian Haskell policy manual that I can find. There are no
dh_make_haskell scripts. The best thing I could find was
<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Creating_Debian_packages_from_Cabal_packā¦>.
Yet that looks ridiculously manual and tedious; why is the information
not simply extracted from the cabal file? Has a script for it just not
been written? If that's the case, then I'd be happy to step up, though
I'm no expert on Debian policy.
Am I just looking in the wrong places?
If Debian unstable is supposed to have all of the latest stuff, are
you guys just short of man power? I'd be happy to contribute, if
someone could mentor me in the proper ways of .deb file creation, the
differences between -dev, -doc, and -prof packages, etc.
Josh "Ua" Ball