Hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.12.2007, 23:40 -0800 schrieb Don Stewart:
Hey,
how goes the xmonad 0.5 packaging for Debian?
semi-stalled. The current problem is that xmonad needs the new Cabal, which will be included in the Debian package for ghc6.8. It _could_ be packaged separately and run with ghc6.6, but this would cause conflicts with the Cabal in ghc6.8, I guess, and also not really worth the profit. Therefore I targeted ghc6.8. A preliminary package is available on haskell-unsafe, I rebuilt that for i386. Then I upgraded the dependencies (mtl and X11) for that. The next problem is that haskell-utils, a Debian package that helps with packaging Haskell libraries, does not support the new Cabal version (and the new cabal files). First tries to upgrade that failed, because to build it I need libraries that are, as of ghc6.8, in extra-libs, which is not yet packaged. That’s the state so far. Igloo (aka wiggle, ghc maintainer in Debian) said that he will look into finishing the ghc6.8 stuff (hopefully including haskell-utils). Maybe I will temporary work around that by packaging xmonad without haskell-utils support, when I find the time, but the rest of the week will be busy. Otherwise I’ll have to wait for Igloo first. So sorry for the delay, but it’s debian: We want to do it rather right than just quick :-) Greetings and thanks for the interest, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata