Porting Agda to Buster backports

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Thu 03 Oct 2019 at 10:03PM +02, Marko Dimjašević wrote:

> ghc libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc-l10n libc6 libc6-dev libghc-agda-dev
> libghc-async-dev libghc-attoparsec-dev libghc-base-compat-dev
>   libghc-blaze-builder-dev libghc-blaze-html-dev libghc-blaze-markup-
> dev libghc-boxes-dev libghc-call-stack-dev
>   libghc-case-insensitive-dev libghc-data-hash-dev libghc-edison-api-
> dev libghc-edison-core-dev libghc-edit-distance-dev
>   libghc-equivalence-dev libghc-fgl-dev libghc-fixed-dev libghc-
> geniplate-mirror-dev libghc-gitrev-dev libghc-gluraw-dev libghc-glut-
> dev
>   libghc-half-dev libghc-hashable-dev libghc-hashtables-dev libghc-
> haskell-src-dev libghc-html-dev libghc-http-dev libghc-hunit-dev
>   libghc-ieee754-dev libghc-integer-logarithms-dev libghc-murmur-hash-
> dev libghc-network-dev libghc-network-uri-dev libghc-objectname-dev
>   libghc-opengl-dev libghc-openglraw-dev libghc-parallel-dev libghc-
> primitive-dev libghc-quickcheck2-dev libghc-random-dev
>   libghc-regex-base-dev libghc-regex-compat-dev libghc-regex-posix-dev
> libghc-regex-tdfa-dev libghc-scientific-dev libghc-split-dev
>   libghc-statevar-dev libghc-stmonadtrans-dev libghc-strict-dev libghc-
> syb-dev libghc-tf-random-dev libghc-transformers-compat-dev
>   libghc-unordered-containers-dev libghc-uri-encode-dev libghc-utf8-
> string-dev libghc-vector-dev libghc-zlib-dev locales
>
>
> Does it mean I'd have to keep all of them up to date in the buster-
> backports suite?

Very likely all of the ones that start libghc-*, yes.  Not the others.

It's your own judgement to make about whether you can do this, but
speaking as someone who has done a fair amount of work with Haskell
packages with Debian, I would consider the amount of work to be
completely unwieldy for a single contributor.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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