Re: Any Debian Etch packages for GHC 6.8.2?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:07:35PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:

Ian Lynagh writes:

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On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:23:59AM +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote:

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Ian uploaded 6.8.2 the day before yesterday... Maybe when he's finished with this work, a rebuild on Etch won't be too difficult.

I do plan to do this at some point, but it's not imminent I'm afraid.

Maybe I can lend you a hand if you describe the plan. I've got some packaging experience, but not with beasts of this complexity.

I don't think the packaging should need to be changed much, if at all. The problem is just to rebuild all the packages in the right order. This message has a little more detail, and links to the script I use to do the "build in the right order" part for the libraries (for unstable/amd64, with pbuilder): http://urchin.earth.li/pipermail/debian-haskell/2008-January/000357.html Either the script would have to be generalised, or an alternative would have to be used (perhaps the software used by Debian's buildds?). Thanks Ian