Hello, I wanted to package bzlib and zlib for use with ghc 6.6:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/bzlib-0.4.0.1 http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/zlib-0.4.0.1 But they requires Cabal >= 1.2.1. Are there any plans to package cabal 1.2.1 for use with ghc 6.6? Cabal 1.2.1 is not a drop in placement for 1.1.3. I have found the following issuse: 1. .installed-pkg-config -> dist/installed-pkg-config The file .installed-pkg-config was moved to dist/installed-pkg-config, which breaks anything that expects to find it in the old location. For example, any package that uses haskell-devscripts. haskell-devscripts is easily fixed by modifying /usr/bin/dh_haskell_install and changing the line to: safesystem("cp .installed-pkg-config $tmp" . getcabalpkglibpath($pkgtype) . "/installed-pkg-config || cp dist/installed-pkg-config $tmp" . getcabalpkglibpath($pkgtype) . "/installed-pkg-config"); But, I am not sure how many other packages would break as a result of the filename being changed. 2. License-File: does not support files in sub directories I typically put: License-File: debian/copyright in my .cabal file, since I also provide a debian directory. However, this no longer works because it tries to copy the file to $DESTINATION/debian/copyright, but the subdirectory debian does not exist at the destination. Any comments? I could just forget about 6.6 and wait till 6.8+extralibs is ready for Debian... j. _______________________________________________ debian-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://urchin.earth.li/mailman/listinfo/debian-haskell
