On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 19:19:29 +0100 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > > >> 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... I just checked hgettext and saw that it has build-type simple. What do the devscripts do in this case? > 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?
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