[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#766738: Request to Join Project pkg-haskell from Daniel Gröber (dxld-guest)

[Gard Spreemann]

On Saturday 25. October 2014 15:02:46 Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 25.10.2014, 14:47 +0200 schrieb Gard Spreemann:
> > Hi. I've newly subscribed to the list, and reported 766738. If there's
> > anything I can do to help with resolving it, please let me know.
> 
> sure. You mention that that ghc-mod 5.x has fixed it, and introduces new
> dependencies. If you can identify those, and check that we can upgrade
> them without having to upgrade too many unrelated packages, that would
> be helpful.

I should have made this clearer, but I haven't actually checked yet. The 
changelog for 5.0.0 does, however, say "ghc-mod consumes much less memory than 
ghc-mod-4.1". I'll try to get it tested soon.

> You can use the haskell-package-plan software to find that out:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-haskell/package-plan.git;a=summary
> 
> There is a README.md, I hope it is sufficient to get you started with
> the tool.

I haven't had time to do what you suggest in detail, but from a cursory manual 
look, I can see that ghc-mod 5.1.1.0 introduces these new dependencies (over 
4.1.2):
- async
- data-default
- djinn-ghc
- ghc-paths
- haskell-src-exts
- monad-journal
- pretty
- split
- text
- transformers-base

Of these, it seems to me at first glance that only djinn-ghc and monad-journal 
are not in Sid. The latter has no unpackaged dependencies, while the former 
needs djinn-lib.

In summary, if I'm not missing anything, ghc-mod 5.1.1.0 would need to have 
djinn-ghc, djinn-lib and monad-journal packaged.


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Gard Spreemann <gspreemann at gmail.com>