Hi, Am Samstag, den 27.12.2014, 18:59 +0100 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > > Am Samstag, den 27.12.2014, 18:37 +0100 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > >>> What are the symptoms of this again? Does it affect jessie? Is this > >>> release critical? > >> > >> The symptoms are, that if you try to build some package that uses > >> hgettext functions in its Setup.hs, cabal yells at you that a lot of > >> arguments aren’t known. > > > > Why do packages use hgettext in their setup? Localized build error > > messages? What packages do that? > > hgettext provides hooks for compiling and installing the language files. > Every package that uses hgettext needs to use these, but we don’t > have packages in Debian that depend on hgettext. now I get it, thanks. > >> If so, we could mark the affected packages and teach the devscripts > >> to compile them with the right version. > > > > Note that descripts never call cabal. Cabal is purely a user tool… > > It calls Setup.hs then, right (after compiling it)? This should be the same case. Only with build-type custom. Which, I guess, hgettext-using packages are... But I would expect cabal-install to explicitly constrain it to use the right version of Cabal. Did you actually reproduce the issue? Also, I’m not sure if this problem is Debian-specific. Shouldn’t “normal” users be affected as well? Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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