[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Haskell Platform package needed in Ubuntu 10.04

[cheater cheater]

Hi,
I have been informed this is the right place to ask: What are the
steps neede for Ubuntu 10.04 to get the Haskell Platform? It's good
enough if it's similar to the ones in Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) or one
of the newer versions. An update to ghc 7 would also be good.

If this is not the right place, please direct me where I should go to
request this to be done.

If there's any information needed, please don't hesitate to ask.

Motivation:

Ubuntu 10.04 is LTS, it will hang around until at least 2015, and
after it stops being supported by Canonical it's still going to be on
some deployments. Using 10.04 LTS is currently for many people the
right choice if they want to run Ubuntu on a server, or in educational
institutions, which are exactly the kind of environments that Haskell
is trying to reach.

The current package layout for Haskell under Ubuntu 10.04 is that it's
split across multiple packages. It does not conform to the usual
Haskell package layout. This in turn means that the documentation on
the official Haskell-related pages is contrary to what needs to be
done in order to install and use Haskell on 10.04.

As an additional note, when spoken to about this issue. Don Stewart
(one of the main Haskell community supporters) has mentioned he didn't
know 10.04 LTS would be hanging around for so long and if that's the
case he definitely thinks it's a good idea to make a Haskell Platform
package available for 10.04.

Thanks,
Damian