Package: hugs98 Severity: wishlist

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Hi Isaac and others.

As you already know a new upstream version of hugs98 is available for some time now. I have been busy updating the package and think my work is ready for an upload. But before I do that I want to make sure the choices made in the packaging are consistent with your expectations.

Upstream ships a debian dir on which I have based the packaging. This means that hugs binary package is split in the hugs binary package and a set of libhugs-LIBRARY-bundled packages. I think this is a good idea and we should go with this.

This also means the libhugs-LIBRARY-bundled packages can then gradually be replaced with libhugs-LIBRARY packages built from the same source as the libghc-LIBRARY-dev packages for GHC. As said by Ian on IRC:

01:22 <Igloo> Just reading the hugs talk in #393599, if the split is into libraries then ideally they would get built from the haskell-*extralibs packages that ghc6 uses. I plan to look into this post-etch 01:23 <Igloo> Libraries GHC ships with will have to be packaged just for hugs

I have added all the libhugs-LIBRARY-bundled packages to the Recommends of hugs so aptitude and synaptic will install all the libraries the user expects by default.

I have dropped the libhugs-glut-bundled package as it does not build and the glut library never has been build succesfully with the Debian hugs package.

The currect version of my packaging is available from my personal repository [1] and I would ask anyone who is interested to check the package. The source package can most easily be retrieved by doing

dget http://moonshine.dnsalias.org/debian/unstable/hugs98_98.200609.21-0.1~pre2_i...

Greetings Arjan Oosting

[1] http://moonshine.dnsalias.org/debian/unstable

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