State of haskell-devscripts and dh-haskell

[Scott Talbert]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Felix Lechner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe the Perl rewrite of haskell-devscripts is nearly complete
> now. The package should probably be merged into dh-haskell eventually.
>
> The Perl module should then become private, i.e. be shipped outside
> Perl's system path. It will discourage direct access of the sort that
> was documented in library.mk.
>
> For the time being, dh-haskell provides no bells and whistles. Any
> functionality you'd like to adopt—such as having certain substvars
> available—must be enabled manually. Fortunately, that is now easy due
> to the many small dh_* scripts.
>
> For the libraries from Hackage it means that any d/rules using the dh
> sequencer will include additional statements similar to the ones now
> found in hlibrary.mk, but instead in execute_after_dh_auto_install.
>
> Perhaps the build system should be augmented through the use of
> environmental variables. A setting of DH_HASKELL_MODULE=1 for example
> (or perhaps merely the presence of CABAL_PACKAGE) could enable the
> additional functionality needed in so many places. It should go right
> here in Debhelper's new Haskell build system. [1]
>
> Unfortunately, I recently switched to another operating system and may
> not be available to work on Debian's Haskell toolchain much longer—but
> I will still keep an eye out for new bugs for a little while longer.

Thanks for all of your work on this, and thanks for fixing the bugs I 
found quickly.  :-)

Scott