Re: Adding copilot

[Robert Greener <rob@robgreener.com>]

On Thu, 2022-06-16 at 00:35 +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 01:07:18AM +0100, Ivan Perez wrote:
> > I'm trying to first get things to run without any changes, and then
> > I can
> > add the modifications for copilot.
> 
> The package-plan (and, not unrelatedly, unstable) is in a broken
> state
> and in need of a considerable amount of labor.  The output you are
> getting
> is correct.
> 
> > [__1] rejecting: arbtt-0.11.1 (conflict: aeson==2.0.3.0, arbtt =>
> > aeson>=0.10
> > && <1.6)
> 
> Fundamentally, this needs to be resolved either by patching arbtt to
> work with aeson 2.0.3.0.  It may be worthwhile to lobby Joachim to
> put arbtt into Stackage so that this type of thing gets resolved
> upstream before ever burdening us.
> 
> Right now, we can either patch arbtt ourselves and copy the relevant
> patches into the package-plan, or, since arbtt is a leaf package,
> mark it 'ignore' and kick the problem down the road.
> 
> I've just pushed the latter to salsa.  You should now see a different
> error that will need to be resolved.
> 

I'm maintaining arbtt on debian, a new release has come out that
supports the latest versions of aeson.

This needs some new dependencies that are not in debian. Once these
have been uploaded, I'll release the latest version of this.

I'll also ask Joachim re: stackage.

--
Robert