On 23 Apr 2011, at 21:48, Joachim Breitner wrote:
I am checking what is to be done to get this new release into Debian, and I notice quite a few changes to the dependencies, including some duplication of existing libraries (haddock-leksah, haddock-process).
That is something we would definitely like to avoid in Debian. Can you tell us why exactly you need different packages, e.g. a link to the bug report where you ask for inclusion of your changes? Ideally, we would in Debian incorporate your changes in the Debian package of process or haddock, but of course only if they are reviewed by upstream and will eventually be merged.
Dependancy on haddock-leksah only applies if you are using ghc-6.10. If you are only supporting ghc 6.12 and above you can ignore it. This is what is in the leksah-server.cabal file... if (impl(ghc >= 6.12)) build-depends: haddock >= 2.7.2 && <2.10 else build-depends: haddock-leksah == 2.5.0 process-leksah is still needed. The feature request is here... http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3994 Favonia has recently made some suggestions and raised some concerns and I imagine it may take a little while to resolve those. Once it is in we will need to update some of the imports as process-leksah module names are different to avoid conflicts.
Also, is there a chance that the features of binary-shared will be merged into binary eventually?
We would like to see it included and we will prepare a patch and submit it to trac/ghc for consideration. Thanks, Hamish