I've had an interested user, who tried to get one of my programs to run on a Debian machine - running Debian Etch, released a couple of months ago. Here are some of the hurdles stumbled upon in the process: 1. Etch comes with ghc-6.6, and that didn't work with my .cabal file. 2. ghc-6.8.3, presumably the binary snapshots, didn't work, neither in i386 nor in x86_64 incarnation. 3. ghc 6.8.1-i386 appears to work, but some of the dependencies failed to compile (tagsoup, in this case) 4. A precompiled (by me), statically linked binary refuses to run with a message of "FATAL: kernel too old". Granted, not all of this is our fault, but it won't help users to start charging the windmills of Debian conservativism. We really need to make this process smoother, and ideally, provide debs for Etch backports. I'm not sure how to go about any of this, beyond debianizing my own packages. But that's why I'm telling you. :-) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants