Re: dh-haskell update

[Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 08:11:39PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
> With the upload of haskell-devscripts 0.16.38 and dh-haskell 0.6.8, 
> dh-haskell is now in a usable state for wider testing.  I know of only 
> one difference between packages built by dh-haskell and the CDBS build 
> currently, which is documented here [1].  Clint and/or Ilias, do you 
> know the history of the GHC-Package control field that is added to 
> -dev packages?  It was added over 10 years ago here [2].

I don't know if anyone is still using it in scripts, but if they are,
those scripts would need to be modified to exclude the extra packages
or dh-haskell's behavior would need to be adjusted.

As for the exact history, I'd guess only Joachim knows that.