Joachim Breitner schrieb:
Am Sonntag, den 17.04.2011, 12:39 -0700 schrieb Jason Dagit:
In this specific case, I'll do what I can to clean things up but your request makes me pause and think that the debian packaging for cabal packages is not automated enough. As haskell developers it seems a little odd to me that we need to consider the cost of creating new packages for the sake of debian. I like debian, so please don't take that the wrong way :)
the observation is correct, but unfortunately hard to change – Debian is large, slow moving, and unlikely to change policies for a corner-case such as Haskell libraries.
As a user I had the impression that the packages become more and more divided into smaller packages (like TeX) and I found this useful, since I only need space for the functionality that I really use.