Op donderdag 02-10-2008 om 23:37 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Joachim Breitner:
Am Donnerstag, den 02.10.2008, 18:15 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva:
Op donderdag 02-10-2008 om 21:43 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Joachim Breitner:
BTW, what do you think of my proposal about making haskell dependencies depend on virtual packages that contain a hash of the *.hi files?
The only thing I don't get is how the broken packages are going to be rebuild automatically.
By scheduling binNMUs in a semi-automatic fashion: We would a script that lists all packages that need to be re-build, and we pass that information to the guys on debian-release.
This seems to be a good idea.
I think the main thing that would change in this idea is the haskell-utils package, which I was working on to maintain. I've done a version[0], but maybe it worth to work on a version that already supports this, and apply the changes I've made in this new version.
So, do you think this version should be uploaded to correct those bugs while we decide about what's coming next?
Actually, this would be a big change in the Haskell package system, so maybe it could be done with the creation of the haskell team, so that we could maintain these packages together. What do you think?
Yes, a packaging team would be useful, but it needs someone to take the lead (e.g. setting up the alioth group, choosing and setting up a VCS etc.)
Don't you want to do this?
Greetings.