haskell-devscripts software package provides Tools to help Debian developers build Haskell packages, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install haskell-devscripts
haskell-devscripts is installed in your system.
Make ensure the haskell-devscripts package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep haskell-devscripts *
You will get with haskell-devscripts package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | haskell-devscripts |
| Version | 0.10.2.3 |
| Description | Tools to help Debian developers build Haskell packages |
| Sub Section | Devel |