Alastair Reid
- we need someone who knows about and cares about Debian to produce debian packages
I wouldn't mind being the Debian person for this task, and there are several others who are probably willing and qualified, but I have been hesitant to package Haskell libraries for Debian until some of the issues raised in the Library Infrastructure thread are resolved. (This is probably not a good attitude on my part, but at least I'm interested in helping to resolve them.) As a reminder, there seme to be two ways to package Haskell libraries on Debian, 1) have a large number of packages (hunit-ghc4, hunit-ghc5, hunit-ghc4-prof, hunit-ghc5-prof, hunit-hugs, hunit-nhc, etc) or 2) build libraries at install time a la elisp. In particular, I can immagine a Haskell Library Infrastructure which makes it easy to automatically generate debian binary packages for all of the compilers that are installed on the build machine. Not to bring it up again, but a distutils type system like Python's (with some modification) seems to solve both the "Library Infrastructure" problem, and the "Contrib packages" problem. Also, it should be noted that there's a place in sorceforge for Haskell Libraries that might be useful in the interim. You can read more about all of this on the wiki: http://www.haskell.org/hawiki/LibrariesAndTools peace, isaac