Hi Joachim. Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of Qua Mar 23 03:33:51 -0300 2011: (...) > 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. (...) -- marcot http://marcot.eti.br/
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