Re: A smallish transition needed for haskell libraries

2009-01-14 Thread Kari Pahula
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:03:18PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Don't you need to do the upload first, so that dh_haskell_depends does > the right thing on the built packages? dh_haskell_depends already does. dh_haskell_prep doesn't. If haskell-devscripts was updated first, then it would use "gh

Re: A smallish transition needed for haskell libraries

2009-01-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:10:19AM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote: > I'm sorry to say that that's not quite all. Some packages have also > this: Build-Depends: ghc6 (<< 6.8.2-999). Those would need a > sourceful upload. A quick grep-dctrl run reveals 15 of those: > > ftphs, haskell-anydbm, haskell-co

Avoiding that in the future Was: A smallish transition needed for haskell libraries

2009-01-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 15.01.2009, 01:10 +0200 schrieb Kari Pahula: > I need to repackage the upsteam GHC tarball, removing gmp-4.2.1.tar.gz > from it and name the new version as 6.8.2dfsg1. Not the usual > "+dfsg1", since when it is like this, it compares below 6.8.2+ with > dpkg (thanks again,

A smallish transition needed for haskell libraries

2009-01-14 Thread Kari Pahula
I'm sure you'd all want to hear from 6.10.1 already. I haven't met any difficulties with packaging that yet. Not done yet either. Unfortunately, there's still one matter that needs to be fixed with 6.8.2 for Lenny. Here's the deal: GHC includes a copy of GMP with it, which has GNU documentation

ABI hash note

2009-01-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, just for the record. If we wanted to avoid unnecessary unrecompilation of dependent modules (as for example [1]), and we would go the way of embedding the ABI in a Provides:/Depends: pair, then here is more information on that: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Recom