[arch-haskell] Creating binary and doc from the same PKGBUILD

Matthew William Cox matt at mattcox.ca
Sat Oct 12 07:35:21 UTC 2013


Resending this because I forgot to cc the list when I responded to
Magnus.

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:07:35PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I think it'd be worthwhile to provide packages with haddock-generated
> documentation for all haskell packages.  However, I'm not convinced
> that the docs should be packaged with the binary components of the
> package.

Generally, Arch users expect docs to come with the package as provided
by upstream, and not as some separate package.

Historically Arch stripped docs out of the packages, but that policy was
reversed over a year ago. See the hue and cry over here:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-April/005574.html

Cheers,
Matt
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