[arch-haskell] Re: Replacing the current comment with a Maintainer field

[Rémy Oudompheng]

On 2010/10/30 Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
> Yes, my PKGLIST now contains both package names from ArchLinux and
> Cabal: <http://github.com/peti/arch-haskell/blob/master/PKGLIST>. This
> allows us to include multiple versions of the same package in the
> distribution, i.e. like this:
>
>  #
>  # ArchLinx pkgname    Cabal pkgname   Version  Release
>  #
>  haskell-pandoc1       pandoc          1.6      1
>  haskell-pandoc        pandoc          2.0      1
>
> I'm also planning to augment PKGLIST with a set of options that are to
> be applied in the conversion, for example:
>
>  #
>  # ArchLinx pkgname    Cabal pkgname   Version  Release  Flags
>  #
>  haskell-pandoc        pandoc          1.6      1
>  haskell-pandoc-full   pandoc          1.6      1        -fhighlighting -fciteproc
>
> I'm not quite there yet, and this change is going to require further
> genereralization of the archhaskell library API, but IMHO that feature
> would be worthwile to have.

I also think so: in this case we should probably adapt cabal2pkg to
output a provides line, so that other PKGBUILD can safely depend on
the traditional package name.

-- 
Rémy.