Bug#951490: haskell-yaml: please split yaml2json out into a separate package

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tag -1 sid bookworm

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:37:42 +0000 Jonathan Dowland <jmtd at debian.org> wrote:
> /usr/bin/yaml2json is a potentially useful tool for many different people,
> not just haskell hackers. The dep chain for libghc-yaml-dev is quite large.
> On my system, it ruled out installing over a 3G network connection, even
> though I already have lots of Haskell dev packages installed.
> 
> Please consider splitting it out into a separate binary package.

There is now a new package "reserialize" in the archive which also 
provides /usr/bin/json2yaml and /usr/bin/yaml2json (and thus causes file 
conflicts when attempting to install both packages) - maybe 
libghc-yaml-dev can just drop them now?


Andreas