Bug#792698: libghc-chart-dev: Package is useless without at least one backend

[Dylan Thurston]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 06:12:26PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 17.07.2015, 11:45 -0400 schrieb Dylan Thurston:
> > Package: libghc-chart-dev
> > Version: 1.3.3-4
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > The Chart package has been reorganized, so that the rendering 
> > backends are in separate packages, currently chart-cairo and
> > chart-diagrams. Neither of these seem to be packaged for Debian, 
> > which I believe makes this package (libghc-chart-dev) useless, as it 
> > can't produce output.
> 
> well spotted.
> 
> Which chart backend would you rather have?
> 
> It seems that Chart-diagramis is not in stackage any more:
> https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/541

I would go for chart-cairo for sure. There doesn't seem to be any
documentation for chart-diagrams. (I just successfully got chart-cairo
working for myself.)

--Dylan