Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 18.03.2015, 10:11 -0400 schrieb Kristoffer Rose: > Hi Everybody, > > I am planning to be at DebCamp+Conf and would be glad to help with > debian- cabal. Did anyone consider using a constraint solver for > package resolution a la what Ralf and Roberto have going for packages? > I can help with that kind of stuff. well, cabal (the tool) has a package resolution algorithm integrated, and we use that in our package plan. But we could definitely need more tooling, e.g. to answer the question: „If I want to upgrade package foo to version x, what other packages do I have to upgrade.“ The test-packages.pl script supports a flag --allow-upgrades that should have that effect, but cabal is unable to cope with the resulting problems. It might be best, though, to improve Cabal’s dependency solver. 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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