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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: large amount of unmaintained dev-haskell/* package
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 12:34:41
Message-Id: 93ec3749cd41da6b5edeab411e0f3d0e9eefb38e.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: large amount of unmaintained dev-haskell/* package by Sam James
1 On Sat, 2022-07-23 at 02:49 +0100, Sam James wrote:
2 > # Sam James <sam@g.o> (2022-07-22)
3 > # Monolithic mask for dev-haskell/* packages which have no reverse dependencies,
4 > # are broken, or severely out of date. The aim is to have the Haskell overlay
5 > # (::haskell) be the place for development packages and only have packages
6 > # needed for end-user applications in ::gentoo, as the status who has
7 > # proven to be unsustainable. More up-to-date versions of these packages
8 > # are available in ::haskell.
9 > # Removal on 2022-08-22.
10 > ...
11 > dev-haskell/hakyll
12 > ...
13 > sci-mathematics/agda
14 >
15
16 Those two are (relatively) popular end-user applications.
17
18 I'm sure this came up already, but just in case it didn't: we largely
19 have two non-developers maintaining the ::haskell overlay, and they've
20 been doing so since slyfox's retirement. Since there's an ongoing
21 thread about recruitment... has anyone thought about letting them do
22 their work in ::gentoo instead?

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