Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 22.07.2015, 11:05 +0200 schrieb Holger Levsen: > On Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2015, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > precisely! Haskell package maintenance is rarely about an individual > > package, but more often about all of them at once. > > this thread made me wondering, why you don't maintain all haskell packages as > a single source package then?
I actually have considered it, and it would make testing transitions much easier, and Haskell would not be intermittently broken in unstable. But there are major downsides: * Not all packages build on all architectures. By Build-Depending on a virtual package, this does not require manual intervention. * Uploading any change, even small, local changes would require a multi-hour build of the developer. * ...followed by a multi-day-build on the weak architectures. * I don’t know what the version of that package should be. * I don’t know how well dpkg, dak and the archive handles a source package with 700 different orig-tarballs. * Tools like uscan do not handle multiple original tarballs well. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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