[arch-haskell] lhs2tex

George Giorgidze giorgidze at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 07:34:31 UTC 2013


Hi Don,

Mateusz has already orphaned the package. I think it is time for
arch-haskell to take it over.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers, George

2009/2/23 Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>:
> giorgidze:
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> 2009/2/23 Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>:
>> > giorgidze:
>> >> Hi Arch-Haskellers,
>> >> CC Mateusz Herych,
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know why is lhs2tex outdated in AUR?
>> >>
>> >> I suggest to (automatically) package it using cabal2arch like most of
>> >> the Hackage packages are packaged. If it requites some manual
>> >> intervention I suggest to ask Matesz (the current maintainer) to
>> >> update it. In case if he is busy and does not have enough time I (or
>> >> some one else who volunteers) would do it.
>> >>
>> >> I think lhs2tex is a nice, useful and mature piece of software and
>> >> does not deserve to be outdated in AUR ;). IMHO, it is well placed to
>> >> be included in the community repo as well.
>> >>
>> >
>> > It's not on hackage, so arch-haskell tends not to watch it, I think is
>> > the main problem.
>>
>> It is. See, http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/lhs2tex
>> and "cabal install lhs2tex" works without any problems.
>>
>> Thanks for your timely response.
>
> Ah ha, then perhaps it needs updating :)
>
> Ah, but now I see why it isn't updated:
>
>     lhs2tex 1.14-1
>     http://people.cs.uu.nl/andres/lhs2tex/
>     Preprocessor to generate LaTeX code from literate Haskell sources.
>
>     unsupported :: devel
>     Maintainer: partition
>
> arch-haskell isn't the owner, so we can't fix it :(
>
> Attached is a PKGBULD nonetheless.
>
> Perhaps it is time to take this one over too.
>
> -- Don
>



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George Giorgidze
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