David Fox wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org
> <mailto:magnus@therning.org>> wrote:
>
> Jeremy Shaw wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Having received no negative feedback, I uploaded the latest version of
> > cabal-debian to hackage. cabal-debian is part of the debian package
> > which features:
>
> As you know I do like the idea of cabal-debian. There's one thing that
> I wonder over though, why do I have to have all the dependencies of a
> package installed in order to debianize it?
>
> % ~/.cabal/bin/cabal-debian --debianize
> cabal-debian: finalize failed: [Dependency (PackageName "HTTP")
> (IntersectVersionRanges (UnionVersionRanges (ThisVersion (Version
> {versionBranch = [4000,0,2], versionTags = []})) (LaterVersion (Version
> {versionBranch = [4000,0,2], versionTags = []}))) (EarlierVersion
> (Version
> {versionBranch = [4001], versionTags = []})))]
>
> /M
>
>
> That message means that finalizePackageDescription in the Cabal library
> failed. If that fails it doesn't have a packageDescription, which I
> think is the parsed version of the cabal file plus more computed
> information. Cabal-debian gets lots of info from the package
> description: the license file, the dependencies, the list of
> executables, and so on. And the fact that the cabal file is valid...
Yes, I understand that. However, that message is what I get when I run
`cabal-debian --debianize` on _cabal-install_ without having HTTP
installed. Why do I need to have all of cabal-install's dependencies
installed in order to run `cabal-debian --debianize` on it?
/M
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