Linux packaging of Haskell Platform

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 08.06.2015, 04:09 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari:
> I think it would be great if we could continue to offer deb and rpm 
> packaging (#5) for the major distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, 
> Redhat, and perhaps Centos), hosting our own repositories to ensure 
> things remain up-to-date.. It appears that Joachim is currently the 
> maintainer of the the existing Ubuntu and Debian side of things.
> 
> Joachim, the proposal here is to host a package repo for hosting recent 
> Haskell Platform releases to reduce the time-to-users. Would you have 
> any objection here?

No objection. But note that deb.haskell.org, which had up-to-date GHC
for Debian stable, was not missed much when it went offline, so the user
demand might not be too great.

I plan to improve the situation a bit by uploading the haskell packages
also to the Debian backports archives, but that will still take a long
time from the release, so it won’t solve your problem.

> I could offer some assistance as well. I remember 
> hearing somewhere that Debian will be gaining some PPA-like 
> functionality. Is this true?

That is true, but it has been true for a while, so I would not hold my
breath. I am, however, very much looking forward to that, and plan to
make use of it.

Greetings,
Joachim

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