[arch-haskell] haskell-gtk, gtk2hs-gtk, and related packages in Arch Haskell

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Sat Oct 12 07:36:34 UTC 2013


gdweber:
> I notice that in AUR we have
> 
> haskell-gtk 0.11.2-1
> 
> haskell-cairo 0.11.1-1
> 
> haskell-gio 0.11.1-1
> haskell-glade 0.11.1-1
> haskell-glib 0.11.1-1
> haskell-pango 0.11.2-1
> 
> gtk2hs-buildtools 0.11.1-1 (which is also in AUR, even though its
> prefix is like the community packages ...)
> 
> while in Community we also have
> 
> gtk2hs-gtk 0.11.0-2
> 
> gtk2hs-cairo 0.11.0-2
> gtk2hs-glade 0.11.0-1
> gtk2hs-glib 0.11.0-1
> gtk2hs-pango 0.11.0-2
> gtk2hs-buildtools 0.9-1
> 
> i686  	Community  	gtk2hs-pango  	0.11.0-2 
> i686 	Community 	gtk2hs-cairo 	0.11.0-2 
> i686 	Community 	gtk2hs-gtk 	0.11.0-2 
> i686 	Community 	gtk2hs-glib 	0.11.0-1 
> i686 	Community 	gtk2hs-buildtools 	0.9-1
> 
> but these do not seem to depend on a gtk2hs-gio;
> indeed, there is no such package.
> 
> Are the haskell- packages better, as their version numbers
> suggest, or are there good reasons for sticking with the
> gtk2hs- packages?
> 

Long term I think we should move to "standard" haskell-* package names.
Stop treating gtk2hs as special.

cabal2arch only knows about haskell-glade etc.

-- Don



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