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[Haskelldb-users] haskelldb and Debian

[Joachim B. <no...@de...>]

Hi Haskell-DB-interested people,

we are still on our way to get the Haskell coverage on Debian back in a
good shape. One of the open issues is haskelldb, haskelldb-dynamic and
haskelldb-hsql-*. All of these are on 0.10 [1] and do not build with
ghc-6.10. It seems that at least haskelldb itself has a 0.12 which does
build, but the others do not. Thus, some questions:

 * Are the haskelldb-hsql-* and haskelldb-dynamic packages still
maintained? If so, is there a release expected soon? If not, we will
have to remove these from Debian.
 * Without the hsql-* packages, the haskelldb package itself is useless,
correct? So we need to package the hdbc series. Are these maintained
actively?
 * Anything else to consider?

Greetings,
Joachim

[1] http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&arch=any&searchon=sourcenames&keywords=haskelldb

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Re: [Haskelldb-users] [Haskell-cafe] haskelldb and Debian

[Justin B. <jgb...@gm...>]

Joachim,

I am maintaing the haskelldb package and it is definitely alive and well. I
don't have a Debian install to test on, but I am glad to help get things
compiling. See my detailed answers below:

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner <no...@de...>wrote:

>
>  * Are the haskelldb-hsql-* and haskelldb-dynamic packages still
> maintained? If so, is there a release expected soon? If not, we will
> have to remove these from Debian.
>
These are not maintained any more.


>  * Without the hsql-* packages, the haskelldb package itself is useless,
> correct? So we need to package the hdbc series. Are these maintained
> actively?
>
Yes, the haskelldb-hdbc is still maintained and will continue to be as much
as I am able. I belive I updated at least haskelldb-hdbc and
haskelldb-hdbc-postgres to work with the 2.0 release of HDBC.

Like I said, I don't have a Debian install readily accessible to build these
but I am glad to help. If need be, I am sure I can get a VM image and build
myself but finding the time coudl be hard.


>  * Anything else to consider?
>
> I guess just making sure haskelldb-hdbc and haskelldb-hdbc-postgres builds
against the latest haskell platform release.

Justin

p.s. Please send replies only to haskelldb-users.

Re: [Haskelldb-users] [Haskell-cafe] haskelldb and Debian

[Joachim B. <no...@de...>]

Hi Justin,

Am Montag, den 07.09.2009, 12:51 -0700 schrieb Justin Bailey:

> I am maintaing the haskelldb package and it is definitely alive and
> well. I don't have a Debian install to test on, but I am glad to help
> get things compiling. See my detailed answers below:

Great to hear that. I’ll upgrade the haskelldb package 0.12 soon (or
someone else from the Debian Haskell Group), and package the
haskelldb-odbc-* packages.

> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner <no...@de...>
> wrote:
>          * Are the haskelldb-hsql-* and haskelldb-dynamic packages
>         still
>         maintained? If so, is there a release expected soon? If not,
>         we will
>         have to remove these from Debian.
> These are not maintained any more. 

Ok, I see no point in having these in Debian any more, and I’ll request
removal. Any objections someone?

>          * Without the hsql-* packages, the haskelldb package itself
>         is useless,
>         correct? So we need to package the hdbc series. Are these
>         maintained
>         actively?
> Yes, the haskelldb-hdbc is still maintained and will continue to be as
> much as I am able. I belive I updated at least haskelldb-hdbc and
> haskelldb-hdbc-postgres to work with the 2.0 release of HDBC. 
>  
> Like I said, I don't have a Debian install readily accessible to build
> these but I am glad to help. If need be, I am sure I can get a VM
> image and build myself but finding the time coudl be hard.

Don’t worry, as long as you make sure your packages build with the
latest ghc and appear on hackage, and are responsive about bug reports,
we are fully satisfied with you as the upstream developer :-)

Greetings,
Joachim
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Re: [Haskelldb-users] [Haskell-cafe] haskelldb and Debian

[Joachim B. <no...@de...>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2009, 09:44 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Am Montag, den 07.09.2009, 12:51 -0700 schrieb Justin Bailey:
> > I am maintaing the haskelldb package and it is definitely alive and
> > well. I don't have a Debian install to test on, but I am glad to help
> > get things compiling. See my detailed answers below:
> 
> Great to hear that. I’ll upgrade the haskelldb package 0.12 soon (or
> someone else from the Debian Haskell Group), and package the
> haskelldb-odbc-* packages.

Just FYI: haskelldb-0.12 has been packaged and uploaded, along with the
hdbc drivers. The hsql drivers are removed from Debian.

Greetings,
Joachim

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