Bug#794007: haskell-hmatrix: add the gsl binding

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 01.08.2015, 22:04 +0200 schrieb Denis Laxalde:
> Hi,
> 
> Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> > Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2015, 20:07 +0200 schrieb picca:
> > > It seems that between jessie and stretch the hmatrix package was
> > > split
> > > Now the gsl binding is provided outside hmatrix
> > > 
> > > Is it possible for you to upload the other hmatrix sources
> > > 
> > >      linear algebra: hmatrix
> > >      numeric algorithms: hmatrix-gsl
> > >      special functions: hmatrix-special
> > >      linear programming: hmatrix-glpk
> > 
> > Quite right!
> > 
> > In the interest of not letting this become a one-man-show: Can someone
> > else of the DHG package these? This also gives you the opportunity to
> > play around with the new repository layout.
> 
> Since I originally package hmatrix, I guess this may be addressed to me.
> To be honest, I haven't used this package much recently and, given its
> rather low popcon, I somehow believe this is superfluous in Debian (it
> probably contributes to the maintenance burden of DHG) and was thus more
> inclined to consider it for removal.

that would be on option, if none benefits from it.

@picca, are you a user of the hmatrix package, or did you report the
bug for other reasons? 

> Anyways, a quick look reveals that, of these extra hmatrix packages,
> only hmatrix-gsl is listed in LTS or stackage. What's should be done in
> this respect?

Of course we can still package them, even if they are not in stackage.
But it looks as if stackage simply did the same mistake, so if we
package the other packages, we should also push for having them
included in Stackage. So in that case talk to the maintainers and ask
them to add their package to Stackage.

Greetings,
Joachim


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