Any Debian Etch packages for GHC 6.8.2?

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Fri Jan 11 12:32:42 EST 2008


On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:07:35PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:23:59AM +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote:
> > 
> >> Ian uploaded 6.8.2 the day before yesterday...  Maybe when he's
> >> finished with this work, a rebuild on Etch won't be too difficult.
> >
> > I do plan to do this at some point, but it's not imminent I'm afraid.
> 
> Maybe I can lend you a hand if you describe the plan.  I've got some
> packaging experience, but not with beasts of this complexity.

I don't think the packaging should need to be changed much, if at all.
The problem is just to rebuild all the packages in the right order. This
message has a little more detail, and links to the script I use to do
the "build in the right order" part for the libraries (for
unstable/amd64, with pbuilder):

http://urchin.earth.li/pipermail/debian-haskell/2008-January/000357.html

Either the script would have to be generalised, or an alternative would
have to be used (perhaps the software used by Debian's buildds?).


Thanks
Ian



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