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Re: Heading for unstable



Hi Joachim.

Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Qua Mar 23 03:33:51 -0300 2011:
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> But what about the library documentation packages, libghc-foo-doc?
> Currently, our -doc packages do not depend on anything (makes sense, as
> they contain HTML that is useful without anything else). ghc-doc and the
> documentation packages of dependencies is only recommended.
> 
> But if haddock changes the interface, and old -doc packages are still
> around, the ghc-doc trigger will fail (or spit out ugly error messages).
> Ideally, we could say "Conflict: haddock-interface-<anything but 16>",
> but that is not possible.
> 
> If we add haddock-interface-<n> to the dependencies of the -doc
> packages, this problem goes away, and only valid combinations can be
> installed. But haddock depends on ghc, so people could not install the
> doc without installing all of ghc.
> 
> Which is more desireable?

Even though the packages contains only HTML files, they're not very useful
without GHC installed, so I would not see a problem in creating the
dependency.

Greetings.
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marcot
http://marcot.eti.br/

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