Re: newer cabal-install (1.24) in sid, please
Hi
>ghc8 having entered unstable/sid - thanks a lot to everyone
>involved in this effort - it is barely usable for me as is,
>as I get error messages of my cabal being too old.
>
>ghc8 seems to require cabal-install 1.24, not 1.22, as I understand,
>thus it would be nice if this could be included/upgraded.
>
>Maybe it's just me, not using stack yet, but still relying on cabal?
it seems to be not that easy
commit 10a35e9c70e46d0d3706566f1f6bc2c23831e422
Author: Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>
Date: Sun Oct 9 15:19:01 2016 -0400
Remove cabal (same version as ghc's)
:100644 000000 fb8b853... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/changelog
:100644 000000 ec63514... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/compat
:100644 000000 90e72fb... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/control
:100644 000000 7fe66cc... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/copyright
:100644 000000 b4ae2ed... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/patches/cabal-show-detail-direct.patch
:100644 000000 b836fef... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/patches/series
:100755 000000 ff23d1d... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/rules
:100644 000000 163aaf8... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/source/format
:100644 000000 c352ae4... 0000000... D p/haskell-cabal/debian/watch
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842394
the package has an update upstream, and the build seems to be working,
http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/haskell-cabal/1.24.0-1/buildlog
but Clint seems to have a different opinion, not sure what ghc is building inside its
source code.
G.
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