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Re: Please add freeze exception for darcs-monitor



Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 09.09.2010, 10:04 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e
Silva:
> Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Qui Set 09 05:53:21 -0300 2010:
> (...)
> > Am Mittwoch, den 08.09.2010, 17:01 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e
> > Silva:
> > > I just found a grave bug in darcs-monitor (#596127), which makes it unusable
> > > for everyone.  It's a simple issue, the patch is attached.  I've made an upload
> > > of the 0.3.8-2 version to sid.  Can you please unblock it?
> > 
> > I think you can avoid this problem by passing --datasubdir (and possibly
> > --datadir) to cabal configure, as done by agda, bluetile,
> > haskell-leksah.
> 
> Good point.  In fact, this sound to me as such a good idea that we may want to
> do this to all packages, with an exception for the packages that have more than
> one version, like parsec.  Maybe we can include --datasubdir=$(CABAL_PACKAGE)
> in hlibrary.mk, and add --datasubdir=$(CABAL_PACKAGE)-$(CABAL_VERSION) in
> debian/rules for parsec and other packages in the same situation.
> 
> What do you think about it?

makes sense.  You can use DEB_CABAL_PACKAGE, which is overwridden in
debian/rules for the packages with multiple versions.

This leads to the next question: Implement such changes in experimental,
or wait for after the release (or at least until it is unlikely that we
are changing squeeze through unstable) and then do the stuff in
unstable?


Greetings,
Joachim

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