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Re: [Pkg-haskell-commits] darcs: haskell-devscripts: ghc-version-substvar



Hi,

Am Samstag, den 31.05.2014, 13:22 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> On Thu, 29 May 2014 00:45:49 +0200
> Sven Bartscher <sven.bartscher@weltraumschlangen.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2014 00:13:55 +0200
> > Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:> > Is that the best solution? I was expecting a substvar that resolves to
> > > something like
> > >  ghc (>= 7.6.3), ghc (<< 7.6.3+)
> > > or something else that you can use in the "Depends" line in
> > > debian/control directly.
> > > 
> > > Also it might be unreliable to use ghc --numeric-version in the presence
> > > of GHC snapshots, preleases and what not. I suggest to use the upstream
> > > version of the actual Debian package here.
> > 
> > I will have a look at it tomorrow. Don't wonder about the recent
> > uploaded patches. I didn't see your mail while working. I will (once
> > again) set the changelog back to UNRELEASED, until I looked at this.
> 
> I now changed the substvar to be more robust and use the upstream
> version of the package. Please have a special look at the
> mini-shell-script I use for extracting the upstream-part of the GHC
> version, since I'm not sure if it works for all cases, though it worked
> for all I tested.

It’s something that we can fix easily if it turns out to be sufficient
(that’s why it’s important to concentrate such logic in one package), so
if you have tested it it’s fine.

> Regards and thanks for your patience

Same to you.

Greetings,
Joachim
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