On each package page, give the name of the corresponding debian package

[guest]

This is a feature request.

I don't know enough to know if this is a good idea, maybe there's a better way of tracking down which debian package to get for a given hackage package. Maybe you could also give corresponding package names for other operating systems. All I know is that I wanted parsec, it didn't come with ubuntu ghc, and I couldn't tell how to get it without asking on #haskell. This could have been resolved by a sentence on the hackageDB page for parsec.

[igloo]

I'm not sure that this is Hackage's job, although perhaps there could be a page somewhere saying how to find packages (in general) for different platforms (e.g. for Debian it would tell you to look for libghc6-foo-dev, and to talk to the Debian-Haskell mailing list if you can't find one).

The main problem with putting it on particular packages' pages is that we'd have to know whether Debian (or, in general, any OS) actually has a package for it.

[ross]

Agree that this doesn't belong on package pages. The wiki seems the best place.