Haskell is a pure functional language. The Debian Haskell group (DHG for friends!) is the team committed to packaging and maintaining a working and up-to-date Haskell environment and library in Debian.

Upstream references

• http://www.hasell.org/ -- Haskell main web site

• http://www.haskell.org/cabal/ -- Cabal (Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries), a program used to distribute many Haskell packages. Importing in Debian cabalized Haskell packages is quite an easy task, because most of the packaging and metadata writing work is already done. This is why we accept in Debian nearly only Cabal packages (nearly all Haskell packages are cabalized, though, so that's not a very restrictive decision).

• http://hackage.haskell.org/ -- Hackage, the main Haskell packages archive; nearly any Haskell package you can find is here.

Team contacts

• General discussion mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/

• Maintainer and commit lists: https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=31040

• IRC: #debian-haskell on OFTC

Team infrastructure

• Alioth Project: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-haskell

• Package Entropy Tracker: http://pkg-haskell.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi -- this PET only shows packages that are team-maintained using darcs

• Dependency tree of our packages: http://pkg-haskell.alioth.debian.org/haskell-pkg-graph.pdf -- updated only manually; colors indicate installability

Haskell packaging

• Haskell Policy -- Needs updating!

• Status of Haskell platform in Debian

• Ubuntu wiki page

TODO list

A raw list of things to do, hoping that somedays someone will start working on them...

• Fix policy, which is very old
  • Adapt it to the current best-practises and haskell-devscripts workflow

  • Description guidelines, see for example http://lists.debian.org/4C2FA27F.50303@poisson.phc.unipi.it

• Fix wiki pages, which are very old too (some examples are completely deprecated)
• Create some Lintian test specific for Haskell packages

Out-of-date things

This list is kept for historical interest. If you're interested how thing (should) go now, you're in the wrong place.

• A blog post about packaging Haskell

• Another (really old) example of how to package a Haskell library using dh_haskell