[dropped the cabal ITP bug from CC list]
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:08:05AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 11:24 pm, Isaac Jones wrote:
I have made uploads already for the source package that generates a binary package for ghc6.
Are you saying you already uploaded it to sid?
Yup, plus MissingH, which uses it, and I'm planning to get another package -- maybe haskell-devscripts or something along those lines -- in the next few days. I plan to have, in this package, things like:
- dh_haskell to automate putting the appropriate package
register/unregister calls in postinst and prerm,
Shouldn't cabal do that for you?
plus getting the deps exactly right
Which deps?
The compiler ones want information from the compiler packages to be done properly, and this isn't going to happen until either the latest ghc6 gets built on sparc and goes into testing or I get bored and upload a new version anyway. I'll probably add the scripts to put this info in the right place that I talked about a few mails ago into haskell-utils.
For other libraries I think Marvin already has something to do this, or has at least looked at the problem. Might even have a tool of the same name? Marvin?
Also, I think you would need to check with the debhelper people before adding dh_* packages/binaries.
- cabal-buildhelper to automate building libraries for up to the four
supported Haskell environments in Debian
I'm not sure how much of this the cabal guys have done. Isaac, Marvin?
Thanks Ian