Wed, 01 Jul 2009
Three More for the Debian New Queue.
Over the last couple of weeks I've managed to get three new packages into the Debian NEW queue :
- haskell-polyparse - A variety of alternative parser combinator libraries for Haskell (this is a dependency for later versions of HaXml).
- haskell-dataenc - A Haskell library of data encoders and decoders like Base64, uuencoding etc.
- haskell-json - Haskell library for serialising data to and from JSON.
Thanks to Simon Horman for sponsoring/uploading the first two of and Matt Palmer for sponsoring/uploading haskell-json.
Posted at: 18:32 | Category: CodeHacking/Debian | Permalink
Mon, 15 Jun 2009
Two More for the Debian New Queue.
I've got two new packages in the Debian NEW queue :
- haskell-safe - Library for safe (pattern match free) functions.
- haskell-uniplate - A Haskell library for uniform type generic traversals.
These two libraries are obviously useful in their own right, but I was particularly interested in packaging these because they are build dependencies for hoogle which I'm currently working on packaging.
Thanks to Simon Horman for sponsoring these uploads and the previous ones.
Posted at: 22:31 | Category: CodeHacking/Debian | Permalink
Tue, 09 Jun 2009
Debian Maintainer.
With the closing of Debian bug #531811 I am now officially a Debian Maintainer.
Although I've been using Debian and related distributions for nearly a decade, for most of that time I've been pretty happy just being an upstream developer and a downstream user.
That changed when I started learning and using Haskell some 6 months ago. After using Ocaml on Debian for about four years I had grown spoilt by the work of the Ocaml Debian Maintainers who do a stellar job in keeping the everything Ocaml related in Debian up to date. Any time I needed a new Ocaml library, it was nearly always just an apt-get install away.
Unfortunately Haskell on Debian is in a poor state in comparison to Ocaml. My main aim in becoming a Debian Maintainer is to improve Haskell on Debian. First of all, I will be packaging Haskell libraries. So far I have make Debian packages of the following three Hackage packages :
- haskell-curl - Haskell bindings for libcurl (already in Debian unstable).
- haskell-bzlib - Haskell bindings for libbz2 (still in the new package queue).
- haskell-unixutils - An interface between Haskell and Unix-like operating systems (still in the new package queue).
I have also joined the Debian Haskell Mailing List and hope to help out on packaging and improving the compiler version transition process.
Posted at: 19:52 | Category: CodeHacking/Debian | Permalink
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