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Re: hoogle autopkgtest



Dear Iustin,

Am Montag, den 14.07.2014, 22:32 +0200 schrieb Iustin Pop:
> Just checked now, and even for a "real" (non-autopkgtest) install, it
> still downloads. So there seems to be something wrong with
> update-hoogle…
> 
> It seems that hoogle changed significantly between 4.2.26 and 4.2.27;
> the changelog mentions just "Rewrite how "hoogle data" works", but what
> I see:
> 
> - 4.2.26 still uses the $DATADIR/download (which we pre-populate), but
>   that code is removed in 84a26afff2, because:
> - commit e6c1dfb5d6 closes issue 47, "Use Shake for generating the
>   databases"; this changes the path to downloads/, and expects different
>   things
> 
> I guess our update-hoogle is now quite outdated, so needs
> rewriting to be able to (again) fake things as to how hoogle expects
> them.

Good analysis so far!

> I would guess that the upstream is not following our use case well, so
> maybe we should with him if we want to be able to keep packaging hoogle…
> Shall I?

Yes, that would be great.

Thanks,
Joachim

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