Dear Thomas, Am Freitag, den 20.12.2013, 19:16 +0100 schrieb Thomas Koch: > Hi Debian-Haskell folks, > > I hope that somebody might be interested in this cool project. I've no > experience with Haskell and would be curious how much work it might be to > package this cool and promising project for Debian? > > Regards, Thomas Koch
the packaging of Haskell applications is usually no big deal, if the dependencies are available. The list is in the field Build-Depends in https://github.com/scrz/scrz/blob/master/scrz.cabal, and missing in Debian seems to be only friendly-time, which is another tiny haskell package that would ideally be part of something else, but if someone wants to maintain scrz in Debian, we’ll happily package and maintain libghc-friendly-time-dev. As for scrz itself I would not suggest the Haskell group to be the maintainer, as the Haskell aspect of maintaining the package is minor compared to the other issues (e.g. dpkg scripts, documentation, security, handling bug reports). But if someone steps up to maintain it, we’ll be here to help with the Haskell side and any problems related to it. In the current form I have some doubts that it is ready to be shipped in Debian. For example, the Build-Depends of scrz do not specify version ranges, which is expected from a polished haskell package. Also, it has not been uploaded to Hackage. All these are signs of a slight immaturity of the project (which can be misleading, of course), so I suggest a thorough evaluation before uploading it to Debian. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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