haskelldb and Debian

Hi Haskell-DB-interested people, we are still on our way to get the Haskell coverage on Debian back in a good shape. One of the open issues is haskelldb, haskelldb-dynamic and haskelldb-hsql-*. All of these are on 0.10 [1] and do not build with ghc-6.10. It seems that at least haskelldb itself has a 0.12 which does build, but the others do not. Thus, some questions: * Are the haskelldb-hsql-* and haskelldb-dynamic packages still maintained? If so, is there a release expected soon? If not, we will have to remove these from Debian. * Without the hsql-* packages, the haskelldb package itself is useless, correct? So we need to package the hdbc series. Are these maintained actively? * Anything else to consider? Greetings, Joachim [1] http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&arch=any&searchon=sourcenames&keywords=haskelldb -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata

Joachim,
I am maintaing the haskelldb package and it is definitely alive and well. I
don't have a Debian install to test on, but I am glad to help get things
compiling. See my detailed answers below:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner
* Are the haskelldb-hsql-* and haskelldb-dynamic packages still maintained? If so, is there a release expected soon? If not, we will have to remove these from Debian.
These are not maintained any more.
* Without the hsql-* packages, the haskelldb package itself is useless, correct? So we need to package the hdbc series. Are these maintained actively?
Yes, the haskelldb-hdbc is still maintained and will continue to be as much as I am able. I belive I updated at least haskelldb-hdbc and haskelldb-hdbc-postgres to work with the 2.0 release of HDBC. Like I said, I don't have a Debian install readily accessible to build these but I am glad to help. If need be, I am sure I can get a VM image and build myself but finding the time coudl be hard.
* Anything else to consider?
I guess just making sure haskelldb-hdbc and haskelldb-hdbc-postgres builds against the latest haskell platform release.
Justin p.s. Please send replies only to haskelldb-users.
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Joachim Breitner
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Justin Bailey