I intend to remove this package:

  * It has no rev dependencies
  * It FTBFS with the latest Haskell libraries available in Debian
  * Seems unmaintained; Last upload more than 5 years ago
  * It's not part of the latest Stackage LTS
  * Newer versions are not uploaded to Hackage

If you believe we should keep this package in Debian, please close this
bug report.

* Ilias Tsitsimpis:

The compiler itself is considered stable upstream and I'd argue that the
number of reverse dependencies is not necessarily a measure of its
usefulness.

… which has been reported a few days ago at best. I'm aware of the
FTBFS, I haven't had time to investigate yet.

No. According to debian/changelog, the last upload by myself was on Nov
1 2023 – almost one year ago. You may have been referring to the
upstream project which hasn't seen updates since 2019; for that, see
above.

How is this relevant to what packages are allowed to be distributed with
as part of Debian?

How is this relevant?

Cheers,
-Hilko

Hi Hilko,

I opened this bug because I wasn't sure if anyone from the Debian
Haskell Team is still working on this package. I have been opening such
bugs for the last couple of years (see [1] for the current list) and
seems to be working pretty well in order to coordinate between us and
remove unused packages.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=pkg-haskell-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&archive=no&pend-exc=done&sev-inc=serious

It's good to know that you still care for and maintain this package.
Please go ahead and close this bug report.

Let me also answer to your questions about why I list those items as
reasons to remove a package maintained by the Debian Haskell Team.

Agreed. Most of the packages maintained by the Debian Haskell Team are
libraries, and this is why "no rev dependencies" is included in my
template.

The reason we didn't caught this earlier is because elm-compiler is not
part of our package-plan [2]. Can you please add elm-compiler there?

[2] https://salsa.debian.org/haskell-team/package-plan

I was referring to the upstream project. There has not been a release in
the last 5 years, and now we are at a place where this project doesn't
build with newer versions of the libraries that are available in Debian.
This made me think this project is abandoned upstream.

It looks like I am not the first one to assume this project is dead:

  * https://github.com/elm/compiler/issues/2308
  * https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/d4b6e1a0072626b2980f0ff1280267d07a2b78aa

This has nothing to do with packages that are allowed to be distributed
as part of Debian. This is about packages maintained by the Debian
Haskell Team. The Debian Haskell Team follows Stackage LTS releases for
the packages we maintain, and we generally avoid packaging anything
outside Stackage because it tends to break with every new Stackage
release.

This has to do with easy of maintenance again. Our tooling (e.g.,
package-plan) rely on Haskell packages being part of Hackage.

As I said above, since you are willing to continue maintaining this
package, please disregard any of the above and close this bug report.

Best,

control: severity -1 normal
control: retitle -1 Issues with the elm-compiler package

Ilias,

I was finally able to fix the FTBFS issue in elm-compiler today, even
though I'll need more time for what I'd consider a proper fix. (Losing
colored formatting for compiler error messages isn't an RC bug, though.)

Since not everything you addressed in the bug report has been addressed
yet, I'm keeping the bug open.

Cheers,
-Hilko