[xmonad] xmonad packages broken in Debian

[Eyal Erez]

Here is the discussion: https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=7402

I am very close to switching distro at this point. I am wondering which
distros supports xmonad well?

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 3:14 PM Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> They said "upstream", not specifically us, and I'd imagine if their
> base package is uninstallable they've got problems with GHC itself.
> That said, I wonder why the package is available at all if it's
> uninstallable. Could you link us to the discussion you mentioned?
>
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 5:51 AM Tomas Janousek <tomi at nomi.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 06:07:28AM +0300, Eyal Erez wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know why the xmonad packages seem to be broken in Debian?
> >
> > xmonad packaging in Debian is, to the best of my knowledge, unmaintained.
> > (I made repeated failed attempts to contact the maintainers over the
> last years…)
> >
> > When I tried to enquire in the distros forums (which is a Debian variant)
> > they indicated that the problem is upstream. Does anyone know what the
> > issue is? Which distro to folks use with xmonad? Where is it best
> > supported?
> >
> > I wonder how exactly could an unmaintained Debian package failing to
> install on an unspecified Debian derivative be our fault… If anyone makes
> such claims, they better explain their reasoning.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Tomáš "liskin" ("Pivník") Janoušek, https://lisk.in/
> >
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