Hi, thanks to some bugging and help from dons and sjanssen, I finally got some 0.5 packages for debian. You can find them, together with the X11 1.4.1 dependency, here: http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/xmonad/ No xmonad contrib yet, sorry, I’ll look at that next. The packages are beta-quality and not tested very much, I hope that you can help me there :-) I decided to split the package up, here is the quote from README.Debian:

The packages for debian are split in four:

* xmonad This package contains only the xmonad binary (with it’s man page) in the default configuration. You do not have to install the haskell compiler to use this package, but you also cannot reconfigure it to your needs. To do that, you need the libghc6-xmonad-dev package. If that is installed, xmonad will detect your configuration when you start it and compile a custom executable in ~/.xmonad transparently.

* libghc6-xmonad-dev This package contains the actual xmonad library, which you need to compile your custom configuration.

* libghc6-xmonad-doc This package contains the documentation for xmonad, including an example configuration file.

* libghc6-xmonad-prof Profiling information. You’ll know when you need it.

If you want to help out, I manage the xmonad package in a darcs repository that contains the regular patches from upstream with the addition of the debian files and my own adjustments to the xmonad sources: http://darcs.nomeata.de/xmonad/ http://darcs.nomeata.de/cgi-bin/darcsweb.cgi?r=xmonad;a=summary Comments and patches are very appreciated. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata