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In this post they discuss the planned redesign of GHC’s build system, and here’s my comment:

The goal of moving away from make is probably a good one, but when failing to get Cabal to fit your needs you revert back to redesigning it using make again? There are numerous other build tools out there, many of them remarkably better than make. What other tools were considered and why were they discarded? I simply refuse to believe that the only build tool to make the shortlist was make.

After reading about screenshots.debian.net I’ve now uploaded a screenshot for the only package I have in Debian, keysafe. It will be visible to the public as soon at it has been approved.